quotes about best friends and laughing

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ~Henri Bergson


Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. ~Henry Miller


Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. ~Owen Laughlin


When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black


One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~Oscar Wilde


History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey


He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~Charles Caleb Colton


There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu, "Religious Human Rights and the Bible"


Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. ~Rene Dubos, Medical Utopias, 1961


The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. ~Edward Koch


If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George Will


Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. ~Mortimer Collins


It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. ~Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990


Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anais Nin


There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964


Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting. ~Lou Krieger


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt