quotes and sayings for best friends

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world. ~Thomas Aquinas



Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart



A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain



Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. ~Christopher Marlowe



Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! ~W.J. Reichmann



Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. ~Hermann Hesse



They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. ~Raymond Floyd



Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford



Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. ~Michael Nelson



Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau



I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell



A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter



Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. ~Richard Bach Evolution: that last step was a doozy! ~Astrid Alauda



Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750



We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James



When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~Russell Hoban



In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ~Charles Kendall Adams