Friendship Flirtation Quotes & Sayings

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness. — John O'Donohue

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further. — Lew Wallace

The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see. — Laozi

All my life
I have been restless-
I have felt there is something
more wonderful than gloss-
than wholeness-
than staying at home. — Mary Oliver

It's hard making a woman your wife when you've been humpin married women for most of your life — Big Daddy Kane

I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: "But who will guard these bandits?" he answered: "Worse bandits. — Henri Charriere

BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN — Arthur Ransome

Especially since I don't want that vinyl stuff outside. 'Oh,' he says, 'that vinyl siding makes a warm house, never has to be painted, you can buy it on time.' I said I wouldn't have it on my coffin." She — Annie Proulx

A temperate fire never boils the water. — Alvin Conway