memories with friends quotes

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain



A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ~Gloria Steinem



It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one. ~Martha Beckman



Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. ~Author Unknown



Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~Dan Greenburg



No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps. ~Charles F. Mullett



I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while. ~Max Eastman I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978



If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller



Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. ~Ugo Betti



You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden



With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. ~Edward Everett



After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan



I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ~Mahatma Gandhi



I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner



Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ~Astrid Alauda



We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. ~Alice Thomas Ellis