quotes about friendship love

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~Ken Wilbur



For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ~I Timothy 6:10



The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ~H.G. Wells, Bealby, 1915



What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? ~J.B. Priestley



I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. ~Gene Perret



A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. ~Author Unknown



Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ~Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love



Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain



If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley



The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu



When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom



Prose: ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.



Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg



What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud



Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer



When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ~David Starr Jordan