good quotes for friendship

What is a home without children? Quiet. ~Henny Youngman



Neurotics, when they hit bottom, don't stop falling. ~Terri Guillemets



In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ~Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo"



A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. ~Luke 12:15



We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. ~W.E.B. DuBois



There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. ~Author Unknown



Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown



Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas a' Kempis



Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. ~William Shakespeare



If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp



A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. ~George S. Patton



We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West



Stress is poison. ~Agave Powers



Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown



He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein



Your safety gears are between your ears. ~Author Unknown



No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966