short funny quotes about friendship

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ~George Bancroft



There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will. ~Kuan Yin



The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader



Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb



People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. ~Charlotte Gray



Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein



Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~Mason Cooley



Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle



Men - and I don't mean to generalize - are crap. They're the human race's only failed gender. Who needs them? And why are they so difficult to keep hold of? Do you think they realize, that were it not for the genetic imperative to populate the earth, they wouldn't get a date? That's one hell of an inducement: no pressure, girls, but shag one of these or it's curtains for all humankind! That's harassment. But do you know what? Do you know what's even more crap than men? We are more crap than men.... These magazines! A hundred pages of "men are useless bastards," and an article about why you should wake him up with a blow job. Am I alone in spotting the inconsistency here? ~Coupling, "Split," original airdate 23 September 2002, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Susan



A man's home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. ~Clare Booth Luce



Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. ~Ellen Glasgow



Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. ~James Bramston, Man of Taste



No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ~Frederick G. Banting



Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle



Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus



Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. ~Allen Tate



The mother's heart is the child's school-room. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Meade



There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ~Virginia Woolf