funny quotes and sayings about friendship

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952



Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~Harriet Braiker



May it please Heaven that his example shall continue to serve as a beacon to our Republics in their darkest moments of doubt and adversity. ~Jorge Ubico



It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. ~Mac O'Grady, describing a typical round of golf



Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988



We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ~John Steinbeck, America and Americans



The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



The men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. ~J.K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977



No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one. ~George F. Nordenhold



If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper



God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922



If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure. ~Stephenie Geist



Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw



No one ever excused his way to success. ~Dave Del Dotto



There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. ~Tallulah Bankhead



The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you. ~Terri Guillemets



The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic. ~Bertrand Russell



I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. ~Martha Harrison



Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ~Henry Ford