quotes about best friends

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. ~Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan


A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives


Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard


In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ~Charles Kendall Adams


Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. ~Grey Livingston


There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~G.K. Chesterton


One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ~Marlo Thomas


Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~Bertrand Russell Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. ~Holbrook Jackson


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


When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford


Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ~Robert S. Lynd


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont


Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown


I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ~Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954


A mathematician is a scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. ~Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary


The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~Hubert H. Humphrey


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary


Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White