quotes about friendships falling apart

You could move. ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood



A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. ~Harold MacMillan



A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. ~O.A. Battista



While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work. ~Author Unknown



There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. ~Andy Rooney



She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. ~Mae West



Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. ~Author Unknown



Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb



When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6



Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is. ~Carol Siskind



I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it. ~Author Unknown



With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet. ~Attributed to George Carlin



They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"



I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. ~Stanislaw J. Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts



Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin



Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I want you to remember, I intend this breast satirically. ~Coupling, "Flushed," original airdate 12 May 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Susan



Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer