quotes for best friends forever

Men of lean habit of body are commonly a long time healthy, having good appetites and strong stomachs for digestion. ~Tobias Venner


Oh golly gee, damn! ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly


I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. ~Alexis de Tocqueville


I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams


Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective. ~Huxtable Pippey


The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. ~Amy Webster


God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi


I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ~Joe E. Lewis


May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind. ~Author Unknown


Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. ~Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988


If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961


Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. ~Author Unknown


A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost


We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score. ~Author Unknown


Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is - a vice? ~Friedrich Nietzsche, alluding to the proverb "Idleness is the beginning of all vices"


Duty is what one expects from others. ~Oscar Wilde


Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960