funny quotes about friendship

In a dream you are never eighty. ~Anne Sexton


There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


If my love to you can't be said in a posy, it can't be said in a library. ~Grey Livingston


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris


It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ~W.H. Auden


Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone


Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author Unknown


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley


Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude. ~Ernest Hello


The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. ~Woodrow Wilson


For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado. ~Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary


When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. ~John Burroughs


It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so. ~Charles de Lint It's easy to cry "bug" when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully. ~Doug Vargas


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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time. ~A.L. Rowse, The Use of History


'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. ~Ovid


I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~James McNeill Whistler


Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? ~Brian Kernighan


The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud


History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~David McCullough