quotes about best friends forever

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre



Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. ~Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943



No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ~Thomas Robert Dewar



Homecoming means more than kings and queens. ~Author Unknown



The sun is nature's Prozac. ~Astrid Alauda



There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. ~Author Unknown



I don't have to like Bush to love America. ~Author Unknown



I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts



Indecision becomes decision with time. ~Author Unknown



Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark Twain



The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. ~Oscar Wilde



One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb



Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don't decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want. ~Marni Jackson



This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life." ~Jon Stewart



The dog is the only animal that has seen his god. ~Author Unknown



We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart? ~Author Unknown We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922