A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
Amanda Grier
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.
Iraqi radio announcer Baghdad Betty
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank
You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
Bob Richards
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
Kenneth Williams
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.
D March
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.
Karol Newlin
"Rising interest rates have been advertised for so long and in so many places that anyone who has not appropriately hedged this position by now obviously is desirous of losing money." - Novermber 2004 in a speech in Frankfurt
Alan Greenspan
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
The Magus John Fowles
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Elizabeth II
Have a variety of interests ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Mathew Allen
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
Terry Josephson
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
Fidel Castro
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.
Ethel Perry Andrus
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
John Knowles
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr.
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
Daniel Considine
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
Fred Dehner
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Catherine Booth
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.