short quotes and sayings about friendship

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer



Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard



People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams



Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ~e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954



Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968 If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner? ~As seen on a shirt at veganstore.com



Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell



It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! ~Nicholas Evans



Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. ~Author Unknown



The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. ~Robert Morley, 1965



Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)



Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related. ~J.C. Watts, Jr.



I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. ~John F. Kennedy



A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it. ~From Cool Runnings



We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. ~Eric Hoffer



I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ~Katherine Anne Porter



As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! ~Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II



Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain



If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com