best friend quotes for guys

Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak. ~Author Unknown



The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard



There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty



A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving



Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ~Edgar Watson Howe



Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ~Alice Walker



I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ~Anais Nin



What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? ~J.B. Priestley, about Americans



If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed



I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ~Orson Welles



Strange...a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! ~Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger



Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. ~Charles Simic



Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb



Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. ~George MacDonald



Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ~Lydia M. Child



One cannot erect, on the basis of a motive that exists only for a very few, an obligation that shall apply to everyone. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. ~Doc Sane



The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson



I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir