funny quotes about best friends and laughing

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine



Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch



There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887



Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~Erica Jong



The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. ~Confucius



I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, "But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?" "My dear fellow," Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, "I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room." ~Laurens Van der Post



A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~John Keats



No man expects a great deal from marriage. He is quite satisfied if his wife is a good cook, a good valet, an attentive audience, and a patient nurse. ~Author Unknown



All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ~Author Unknown



If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. ~Susanne K. Langer



Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani



A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams



No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595



To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will Durant



Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston



Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~Mac McCleary



It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois



Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. ~Alfred E. Neuman



We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall