quotes about real friends

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~William McFee



Labels? Okay, fine. I'm bisensual. Heteroflexible. And life-curious. That about covers it. ~Morgan Torva



A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. ~John 7:24



The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib



The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here. ~Steve Forbes



Is there life before death? ~Author Unknown



Grief is a species of idleness. ~Samuel Johnson



I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism," 1924



Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini



I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ~Eleanora Duse, Le Gaulois, 1922



Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. ~Adolph Monod



But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ~Somerset Maugham



A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan



If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. Up ahead there are two parallel buses. With cat's whiskers, you measure the clearance down a doubtful alley. You swing wide, outflank that flower truck. The cross-street yellow light is turning red. You burst off the green like a surfer on a wave of metal. You have a hundred empty yards of Broadway to yourself. ~Chip Brown, "A Bike and a Prayer"



Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~Author Unknown



Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.



I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938