friendship quotes and sayings

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! ~Daniel Webster



The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf



Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ~Arnold Edinborough



Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years



A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good. ~Burton Hillis



It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. ~Ted Koppel



Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions. ~Author Unknown



The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis



When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg



The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. ~William Cowper



A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. ~Louis J. Camuti



Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow



First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams



If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is. ~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



It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world. ~J.K. Rowling, "Horcruxes," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005



Quote A: �One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.� ~Jared Sandberg



In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin