sad friendship quotes and sayings

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. ~William Simon



When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ~Dante Alighieri, Inferno



Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. ~Mercy B. Jackson



You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb



Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht



I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. ~Finley Peter Dunne



We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. ~Robert Sweetgall



It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile. ~Author Unknown



Time goes, you say? Ah no!



The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. ~Norman Mailer



When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb Colton



It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin



The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. ~Aesop, Fables



A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit



A hard man is good to find. ~Mae West



Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown. ~Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune



Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~Idries Shah