Quote of the Week

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

Quotes

Friendship Quotes:

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus

"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott

"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."
- William Yeats

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome

"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
- William Shakespeare

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Artistotle

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford

"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
- James Francis Byrnes

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller

"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."
-Benjamin Franklin

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
-William Arthur Ward

"We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over."

Universe Quotes:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

-Albert Einstein

"When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn that's not it."

-Bernard Bailey

"There is a theory which states that if ever, for any reason, anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory that states that this has already happened."

-Douglas Adams

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should have never found out that is has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

-C.S. Lewis

"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."

-Deepak Chopra

"Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because we actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe."

-Marcus Cole

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

-Dr. Carl Saqan

"What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with."

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."

-Scott Adams

"God does not play dice with the universe; he plays and endless game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the view of the players (that's everyone), to a complicated version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and for some reason, smiles all the time."

-Neil Gaiman

"I do not believe that God would play dice with the universe."

-Albert Einstein