quotes on life and friends

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



He doesn�t reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown



God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ~Alfred Jarry, Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, 1911



You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author Unknown



Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded... ~Dennis Elwell



The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~Terri Guillemets



Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep. ~Richard Shelton



I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Our Girls"



Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~Samuel Butler



How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou, in Chris Orr, "Moms and Whoopi: Pioneers of Black Theater," Plexus, November 1983



The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. ~John Jay Chapman



Grandma quilts have love in every stitch. ~Author Unknown



In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935



No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. ~Robert Kirby



Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton



A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ~W. Somerset Maugham



The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. ~Heywood Broun