funny friendship quotes for girls

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce



A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. ~Cicero



Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ~John Mason Brown



"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini



Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter



Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate



Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710



Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. ~Billy Elmer



Women are all female impersonators to some degree. ~Susan Brownmiller



Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. ~Franklin P. Jones



Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill



I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future. ~Richard Jeni



To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~Bertrand Russell



It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn



Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France



Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. ~Author Unknown



You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. ~Lillian Gish