cute friendship sayings and quotes

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990



In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever. ~Walt Whitman



There does not now, nor will there ever exist, a programming language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs. ~Lawrence Flon



The rule was "No autopsy, no foul." ~Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood



Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ~William James



Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin



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



A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~Karen Lamb



To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb



Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994



A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb



As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ~Ellen Perry Berkeley



The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. ~Havelock Ellis



A day came - of almost terrified delight and wonder - when the poor widowed girl pressed a child upon her breast.... a little boy, as beautiful as a cherub. What a miracle it was to hear its first cry! How she laughed and wept over it - how love, and hope, and prayer woke again in her bosom as the baby nestled there.... It was her life which the baby drank in from her bosom. ~William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter XXXV



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



A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor ~Victor Hugo



Few great men could pass Personnel. ~Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1956



What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine



Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. ~Bion, "Water and Land Animals," Plutarch



Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Terri Guillemets