missing you friend quotes

We used to fly past shoppers in the town centre and especially in the winter, wrapped up in our duffle coats, woolen hats and scarves we used to get so warm that there would soon be coats unbuttoned, scarves trailing behind and rosy cheeks by the time we got to school. ~Karen Elkins, as posted on iskip.com



The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. ~Author Unknown



There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," Man and Superman



Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ~Douglas Jerrold, "Meeting Troubles Half-Way," 1859



Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. ~Jason Love



I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ~James Thurber



It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician. ~William Cullen, Practice of Physic



We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ~Carl Sagan



Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren



Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. ~Robert Frost



Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. ~Terri Guillemets



Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ~James Branch Cabell



Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. ~Joseph Farrell



A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown



I am having an out of money experience. ~Author Unknown



My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. ~Author Unknown



The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines. ~Grey Livingston



The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~Calvin Trillin



Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? ~Author Unknown