cute friendship pictures with quotes

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. ~Proverb


In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ~Aaron Rose


A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~Niccolo Machiavelli


Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice


When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent. ~S.A. Sachs


O, she is the antidote to desire. ~William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695


At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. ~Marshall B. Rosenberg


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


The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ~Clifford Stoll


This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman


Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went


You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~Duke Snider, 1975


A woman who sells herself to buy bread for her aged mother or her child, stands upon a higher moral plane than the blushing maiden who marries a money bag, in order to gratify her frivolous appetite for parties and travel. Of two men, he is the less deceived, the more logical and rational, who pays his companion of an hour in cash, each time, than he who gets a companion for life by the marriage contract, whose society was purchased as much as in the former case. Every alliance between man and woman in which either one is influenced by the substantial or selfish advantage to be gained by it, is prostitution. ~Max Nordau, Conventional Lies of Our Civilization


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain


The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. ~Mortimer Collins


The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960