quotes about having fun with friends

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ~Robert M. Pirsig



California is a queer place - in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.... It's sort of crazy-sensible. Just the moment: hardly as far ahead as carpe diem. ~D.H. Lawrence



Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. ~Oxford Union Society, London, Rule 46



I knew a man who once said, "death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back." ~From the movie Gladiator



"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ~Andre Gide



The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. ~Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945



How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink? ~Author Unknown



I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet



Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. ~Barry Goldwater



If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. ~Art Buchwald, 1974



A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. ~T.S. Eliot, New York Post, 22 September 1963



Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988



The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~Lord Chesterfield The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~Lord Chesterfield



The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov



That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



How come there's only one Monopolies Commission? ~Nigel Rees



Historians are themselves products of history. ~Paul K. Conkin and Roland N. Stromberg, Heritage and Challenge



It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli



If it draws blood, it's hardware. ~Author Unknown