quotes about life and friends

Dust is just a country accent. ~Author Unknown


Law never made men a whit more just. ~Henry David Thoreau


I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me. ~Richard Phillips Feynman


Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. ~Lord Reading, on speechmaking


At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. ~E.H. Chapin


Historians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous. ~Robert Stinson


There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity. ~Charles Evans Hughes


Firefighters save hearts and homes. ~Author Unknown


One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson


Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. ~Montesquieu, Varietes


Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?" by William Habington


Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown


Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ~George Washington Carver


The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. ~Don Marquis


People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ~Thomas Sowell People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing. ~Ed Zern, 1947


The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. ~Morris Mandel