funny sayings and quotes about friendship

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ~Wilson Mizner



It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge



Time flies... scrapbook it. ~Vivian Perez-Espinosa, owner of Let�s Scrap!, a scrapbooking store in South Miami, Florida (www.lets-scrap.com)



Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol



We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ~Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936



Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. ~Julian Green, Diary, 28 December 1958



When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul. ~Michelle Delio



The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire



Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday."



Silence was never written down. ~Italian Proverb



Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan



It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. ~Saint Jerome



Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ~Matthew 6:19-21



A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl



If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. ~John Donne, 1623



The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown



Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859