funny friendship quotes in english

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. ~William Congreve



The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. ~Joseph Addison



Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor



The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~Lane Olinghouse



The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~Bill Veeck



Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. ~Lyndon B. Johnson



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



There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan



Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. ~Albert Einstein



It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. ~Adlai Stevenson



It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ~H.L. Mencken



I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity. ~Erkki Melartin



But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may, perchance, be further polished, and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice, but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance. ~Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning



The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ~William Shenstone



Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James



The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem



The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. ~Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos



Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets



What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1