short friendship quotes and sayings

God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb



Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1977



It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ~Mary Pickford



Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams



I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee. ~Jay Leno



As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections



Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. ~Margaret Mead



If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. ~Pam Brown



Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving. ~O. Henry, Heart of the West, 1907



He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown



The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. ~Sydney J. Harris



A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. ~Carl G. Jung



Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand



Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ~Author Unknown



The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner



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