quotes about friendship love

The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men. ~Lupe Velez


In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. ~Author Unknown


Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~William Faulkner


It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid? ~Richard Bach


Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. ~Martin H. Fischer


If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there won't be. ~Author Unknown


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Confucius, Analects


A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. ~Grantly Dick-Read


Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin


Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ~Andre Gide


Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. ~Soren Kierkegaard


I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923


Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another. ~Irving Townsend


There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. ~Mike Penner, Los Angeles Times


Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. ~Oswald Chambers


I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton


The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ~David Brinkley


It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. ~Rachel Carson


I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com