quotes for friendship

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. ~Hermann Keyserling



A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow



Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. ~Thomas Szasz



In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. ~Douglas MacArthur



I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. ~Arnold Toynbee



If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. ~Andre Maurois



Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990



A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. ~Osbert Sitwell



Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. ~Albert Camus



God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ~Samuel Butler, "Prose Observations"



Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. ~Lewis Mumford



Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bu�uel



Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~George Santayana



If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison



Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle



Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell



To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.



Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Author Unknown



Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall