best quotes for friendship

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ~Seneca


A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. ~Author Unknown


Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx


And hence at our maturer years, when any object of vision is presented to us, which by its waving or spiral lines bears any similitude to the form of the female bosom, whether it is found in a landscape with soft gradations of rising and descending surface, or in the forms of some antique vases, or in other works of the pencil or chisel, we feel a general glow of delight, which seems to influence all our senses. ~Erasmus Darwin


In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian


No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb


Art is a kind of illness. ~Giacomo Puccini


It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. ~Clare Short


We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown


That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ~Amos Bronson Alcott


History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988


It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. ~Alfred North Whitehead


The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis


Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ~Erik Pepke


The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. ~Joseph Addison


If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960