friends forever quotes

Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn't eat much and doesn't read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host. ~Astrid Alauda



One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882



It is never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot



Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. ~Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946



A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates



It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid? ~Richard Bach



Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown



In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. ~Brooks Atkinson



Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ~John Updike



I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. ~Drew Barrymore



Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule



American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. ~Sue Lawley, 1985



Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch



Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton



Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel



I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown



Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler



Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ~Oscar Wilde



When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support. ~Lancet, editorial on the "medical-industrial complex," 1973