friendship sayings and quotes

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~Bernard-Paul Heroux



The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ~G.K. Chesterton



What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle



Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris



A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities



You're not dumb, or stupid, just thoroughly wrong. ~Jerry Kopke



What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ~Winston Churchill



Today is the last day of some of your life. ~Author Unknown



I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. ~Robert Ludlum The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. ~Gerard Piel



I hire tea by the tea bag. ~Martin Amis, on renting the essentials of life after breaking up with a lover, Money: A Suicide Note (Thanks to bartleby.com for verifying the details of the source.)



He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~Arabian Proverb



A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton



Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels. ~Author Unknown



Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb



As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib



If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it. ~Thomas Carlyle