quotes about friends changing

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~Mahatma Gandhi



The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg



There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson



Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers. ~Author Unknown



Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ~Sydney J. Harris



I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass



Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ~Andre Gide



Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~Sydney J. Harris



Every path hath a puddle. ~George Herbert, "Jacula Prudentum"



The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ~Will Rogers



Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown



Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson



If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ~S.I. Hayakawa



I bear a little more than I can bear. ~Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures. One Person. Sonnet XVI



Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ~Isaac Asimov



Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? ~Jean Paul Richter



The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill