friendship sayings and quotes

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown



We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ~Erwin N. Griswold



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



My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres



The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. ~Wilson Mizener



I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have no laws at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. ~Seneca



There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. ~Wesley Bates



Apart from yoga, meditation, reading, it has to be one of the most serene things to do (don't lose your needles though, that can create a severe lack of serenity). ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus, about needlepoint



The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Plagiarism: literary theft; when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own; to avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.



There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn



A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse



When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams



Never let the little head do the thinking for the big head. ~Author unknown, advice to teenage boys, quoted in Friendly Advice compiled by Jon Winokur



People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown



The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. ~Washington Irving



Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Kissing is like drinking salted water. You drink, and your thirst increases. ~Chinese Proverb



Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. ~Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969