quotes for friends

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. ~Franklin P. Jones



History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988



Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead. ~Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics, 1977



The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. ~Author Unknown



You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. ~Alexander Pope



It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon



Do your kids a favor - don't have any. ~Robert Orben



There is no such thing as a little garlic. ~A. Baer



A simple and irrefutable argument to knock creationism on its ass: (1) Humans are a mistake - subproof: opposable thumbs and enlarged brain capacity are the combined number one factor in the increasingly speedy destruction of planet Earth. (2) God doesn't make mistakes. (3) Therefore, God couldn't have created people. ~Cassus Garrulitas



O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!



Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. ~Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History



There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~Richard Buckminster Fuller



The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson



A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. ~John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic



Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. ~W.C. Fields



Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. ~Thomas Fuller



Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ~Josh Billings



I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. ~Mae West



An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather