quotes about best friends falling in love

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable. ~Sherry Glaser


No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. ~Russell Lynes


In dog years, I'm dead. ~Author Unknown


God has entrusted me with myself. ~Epictetus


Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ~Sarah Brown


Pictures must not be too picturesque. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets


There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington


In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950


Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it. ~Author Unknown


Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897 (Thanks, Jessica)


The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus


There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ~Mark Twain


People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda


Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown


Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. ~Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897


The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad


He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. ~Herodotus, The History of Herodotus