i miss you my friend quotes

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ~Thornton Wilder



A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



But I was not, to use the theological phrase, receptive. The great obstacle to the influx of grace was my own perfect happiness, and it is well known that God takes no thought for the happy, any more than He does for birds and puppies, perhaps realizing they have no need of Him and mercifully letting them alone. ~John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, 1970



If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky



Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? ~James Donovan



I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ~John Wayne



Chance takers are accident makers. ~Author Unknown



Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. ~Ambrose Bierce



If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson



Labels? Okay, fine. I'm bisensual. Heteroflexible. And life-curious. That about covers it. ~Morgan Torva



He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588



The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love. ~A.C. Van Cherub



Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ~Grant Petersen



Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. ~Seneca



Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. ~Stephen Leacock



Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes



Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ~Mae West



I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re�stablish the truth. ~Martin H. Fischer



No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. ~Martin Luther



The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950