quotes about friends fighting

In violence we forget who we are. ~Mary McCarthy



Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner



They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Life, if well lived, is long enough. ~Seneca, De Ira



The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. ~Wendell Willkie



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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. ~Thomas Szasz



Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. ~Raymond E. Feist



No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ~George Bernard Shaw



Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. ~Abraham Meyerson



When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ~Norm Crosby



In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. ~Jonathon Miller



Quote A: �Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.� ~Steuart Henderson Britt



I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. ~Tammy Faye Bakker



The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. ~Aldous Huxley



If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt



A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ~John Dennis, 1781



I hire tea by the tea bag. ~Martin Amis, on renting the essentials of life after breaking up with a lover, Money: A Suicide Note (Thanks to bartleby.com for verifying the details of the source.)



Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~Hannah Arendt