i miss you friendship quotes

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~Colette



We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. ~J.B. Priestley



Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson



A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. ~Jean Cocteau



To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis



If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin



Willful waste brings woeful want. ~Thomas Fuller



I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. ~George Jean Nathan



Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb



One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane



A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. ~Martin H. Fischer



Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. ~Philip J. Davis



With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. ~Kingman Brewster, Jr.



Squash is boxing with racquets. ~Jonah Barrington



Maintenance is as much art as it is science. ~Author Unknown



The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach



And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson



Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe. ~Benny Hill



It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924