true friendship quotes and sayings

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919



To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. ~Barry M. Goldwater and Jack Casserly, Goldwater



When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again... ~II Samuel 14:14



Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan



It was a typical net.exercise - a screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot on the pavement, where used to lie the carcass of a dead horse. ~Author Unknown



I don't play the field - I rule the sidelines. ~Author Unknown



It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~Amy Weintraub



In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Benjamin Franklin



When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure. ~Anna Quindlen



Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ~Helen Rowland



Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair



The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. ~Joseph Collins



I'm itching to be stitching! ~Author Unknown



Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf. ~Roy Blount, Jr.



I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"