quotes about love and friendship and happiness

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret



He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ~Oscar Wilde



It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn



History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel



Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ~Hilaire Belloc



Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. ~Russell Page



A hundred ten in the shade is sorta hot, but you don't have to shovel it off your driveway. ~Author Unknown



Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~Jim Rohn



A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~Thomas Paine



Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. ~William Hazlitt



The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies



The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ~Henry Ford



Home cooking: where many a man thinks his wife is. ~Author Unknown



The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. ~John Burroughs



The old theory was "Marry an older man, because they're more mature." But the new theory is: "Men don't mature. Marry a younger one." ~Rita Rudner



Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good. ~Author Unknown



Don't just do something - sit there! ~Author Unknown



One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller