Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.
~quote about Friendship by Joseph B. Wirthlin
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~quotes on Simplicity by Confucius
If you're alone, I'll be your shadowIf you want to cry, I'll be your shoulderIf you want a hug, I'll be your pillowIf you need to be happy, I'll be your smileBut anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me
~sayings on For a Friend by Author Unknown
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
~quotations on Wise Words by Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the peopleOf course, that is not trueDecisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing
~romantic birthday sayings by Walter H. Judd
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~saying about romantic birthday by Pablo Casals
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
~quote about Community by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
~quotes on Wise Words by John Lennon
If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
~sayings on Babies by Dave Barry
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.
~quotations on Government by George Will
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
~romantic birthday sayings by Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
~saying about romantic birthday by Sally Koch
Every man should be born again on the first day of JanuaryStart with a fresh pageTake up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face
~quote about New Year by Henry Ward Beecher
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
~quotes on Alcohol by Samuel Johnson
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~sayings on War by Voltaire, War
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
~quotations on Sex by Susan Sontag
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
~romantic birthday sayings by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
~saying about romantic birthday by A. Whitney Brown
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
~quote about Sleep by Ellen Goodman
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
~quotes on Yoga by Carl Jung
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
~sayings on Ignorance by Norman Juster
Night travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.
~quotations on Ignorance by Author Unknown
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
~romantic birthday sayings by Paul McCartney
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.
~saying about romantic birthday by Henry David Thoreau, Walden
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
~quote about Worry by Robert Jones Burdette
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
~quotes on Animal Rights by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated
A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness
~sayings on Malay Saying by Malay
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.
~quotations on Books Reading by Holbrook Jackson
If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?
~romantic birthday sayings by As seen on a shirt
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly
~saying about romantic birthday by Proverb
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
~quote about Humor by Woody Allen
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
~quotes on Hate by Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
~sayings on School by Author Unknown
Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself.
~quotations on Medical by Martin H. Fischer
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
~romantic birthday sayings by Immanuel Kant
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
~saying about romantic birthday by Walter Scott
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage
~quote about Patriot Day by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot.
~quotes on Health by William C. Hazlitt
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