quotes about friends and love

No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose. ~Leo Tolstoy



I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee. ~Carly Simon



Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun



You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman



A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~Samuel Johnson



In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. ~Robert Ingersoll, Individuality



Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ~Branch Rickey



The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life� the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker



Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it. ~Author Unknown



In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ~Mark Twain



The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~Mae West



And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ~I Peter 4:8 And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse. ~Bedouin Legend



Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm



My heaviness comes from the heights. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane



The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. ~Linus Pauling