quotes for friends

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes. ~Paige Rense



God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task, 1785



It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir



When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen



The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~Jules Renard



It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo



They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th. ~Author Unknown



We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber



Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load. ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment



A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams



How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. ~Zall's Second Law



One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. ~Romans 14:5



It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown



The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies. ~Astrid Alauda



Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ~Dag Hammarskjold



On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club



America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ~Sigmund Freud



Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton