quotes about friends and love

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977



A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. ~Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November 1843



I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ~Shelley Winters



Overcast with drizzles - O! we neurotics welcome the riddance of that pesky sunshine. ~Terri Guillemets



No woman will ever be satisfied because no man will ever have a chocolate penis that shoots out money. ~Author Unknown



A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. ~Grantly Dick-Read



What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani



However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau



A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon



If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson



Waste is a tax on the whole people. ~Albert W. Atwood



Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle. ~Author Unknown



It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. ~Jean Cocteau



The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. ~Marlene Dietrich



Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. ~James Weldon Johnson



The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. ~Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary



Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker



The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs. ~Alphonse Toussenel



The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827