happy valentines day quotes friends

Science is simply common sense at its best. ~Thomas Huxley



My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. ~Bette Midler



Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ~John Anthony Ciardi



Sure there's no "I" in "team," but there is a "ME"! ~Author Unknown Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? ~Martin H. Fischer



All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh



Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ~David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965



It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron



There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer



Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein



Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~Mother Teresa



What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll



Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde



Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning? ~Mike Alexander, MADfit.com



Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. ~Bess Streeter Aldrich



Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will



The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~Ethel Barrymore



As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso



If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops. ~Kelvin Throop



To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger. ~"The Mission," Chapter 2