funny friends quotes and sayings

I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. ~Benito Perez Galdos



We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne



Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things. ~William Golding Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ~Jacob M. Braude



There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. ~H.M. Tomlinson



He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose. ~John George Jones



When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ~Vincent Van Gogh



I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ~George Santayana, "The Irony of Liberalism"



The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ~Doris Day



There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Ann Seton



You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner



Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections



No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. ~Tommy Lasorda



The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan



I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman



other animals? ~Attributed to George Bernard Shaw



Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ~Stuart Chase



Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by. ~Andre Maurois, Ariel, 1924



Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954



Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub. ~Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines