quotations on friends

No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961 No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982



I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein



When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty



Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye. ~Grey Livingston



I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ~Mahatma Gandhi



But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ~George Orwell



We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ~Fran Lebowitz



Elephants and grandchildren never forget. ~Andy Rooney



If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? ~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd



Never assume the obvious is true. ~William Safire, Sleeper Spy



Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown



The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. ~Charles Francis Adams



Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car. ~Author Unknown



Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. ~Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works



The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. ~Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores



There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965



I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings. ~Terri Guillemets