funny quotes about love and friendship

The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1926



Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer



The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken



And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke



When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. ~-Steven Wright



It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ~Walter Bagehot



Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes



I use the word "fat." I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight. There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat! ~George Carlin



Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. ~Emily Saliers, "Center Stage," Indigo Girls, 1989



To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness. ~Fritz Perls



This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. ~Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition, c.1948, may instead have been said by an anonymous official, see notes at www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html



To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness. ~Fritz Perls



Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ~Clare Booth Luce



Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Soren Kierkegaard



A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. ~Martin H. Fischer



It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people. ~Patti Thor



A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ~Author Unknown



Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals