quotes about love and friendship and happiness

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity. ~Kevin Smith



Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop



The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin



Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound



Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce



They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom. ~William Gouge, 1622



Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971



Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. ~Matthew 12:33



Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie



Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling. ~Pam Brown



We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999 (Thank you, sexbratsrocknroll.) We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989



Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ~Erica Jong



The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ~Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel



The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. ~Author Unknown



Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy



Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill



Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~Henry Ward Beecher