quotes about family and friends

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark



However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau



A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ~Mark Twain



Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. ~Samuli Paronen



Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"



Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin



The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov



Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?" by William Habington



Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly. ~Astrid Alauda



You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911 You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911



The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown



History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret



I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932



There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber



If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt



A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. ~C.J.J. Mullen



Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~Samuel Beckett



Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ~Spike Milligan, The Last Goon Show of All



The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. ~Clara Ortega