quotes about fake friends

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter


Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ~Hosea Ballou


Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. ~Erma Bombeck


We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~L'Estrange


A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~Mark Twain


The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. ~Hermann Hagedorn, "The Bomb That Fell on America"


A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty


Backdraft has the right-of-way. ~Author Unknown


When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb


Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. ~Soren Kierkegaard


When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ~Prince Philip


Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. ~Maya Patel


We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor


Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. ~Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4


Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown


Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911


There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton


They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. ~Henry Ward Beecher


He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert