(330 quotes found)
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
A. A. Milne
“Creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, 'I'm stupid, isn't it cute?' makes me want to throw daggers. I want to say to them, 'My grandma did not fight for what she fought for just so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK'.”
Reese Witherspoon
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire
“But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine”
Thomas Jefferson
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
Henry David Thoreau
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”
Euripides
“Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.”
Lope de Vega
“Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle