friendship quotes 2011

He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. ~Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy



They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. ~Raymond Floyd



Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King



Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~Norman Podhoretz



Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~John Dryden



Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ~Henry Fielding



The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell



Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. ~Don Marquis



Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein



How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. ~Mother Teresa



The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. ~Bill Gates



It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. ~Harold Geneen



Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet.... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth.... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~Carol Krucoff



Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill



After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. ~English Saying