quotes about real friends

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy



Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. ~F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution



Every uniform corrupts one's character. ~Max Frisch



I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck. ~Author Unknown



Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there. ~Ray Miller



The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb



In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. ~Stephane Mallarme



Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948



I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. ~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903



Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert



Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde



A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. ~Mark Twain



From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam



Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson



She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ~Raymond Chandler



Silence was never written down. ~Italian Proverb



Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic