quotes about best friends and distance

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. ~Peter Dunne, 1992



He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. ~English Proverb



But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



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



Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. ~Thomas Szasz



Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring



The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. ~Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty



Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ~Anatole France



The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~Jean Cocteau



A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J. Moroney



By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindrath Tagore



The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. ~William Simon



We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter



Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. ~Carol Krucoff



Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum



The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! ~Artur Schnabel



Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. ~Graham Greene



I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark