Quotes of Randomness

I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. ~ Peter Gibbons in “Office Space”

It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. ~ Peter Gibbons in “Office Space”

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams. ~ Willy Wonka in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

There’s no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There’s no knowing where we’re rowing
Or which way the river’s flowing
Is it raining?
Is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of hell a-glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?
Yes, the danger must be growing
‘Cause the rowers keep on rowing
And they’re certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing!
~ Willy Wonka in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

A friend to all is a friend to none. ~ Aristotle

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you. ~ Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. ~ Jacques Delille

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter. ~ Marlene Dietrich

It is one of the blessigns of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse, and I am not made of stone or iron so I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need. I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. ~ Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. ~ Victor Hugo

The difference between men friends and women friends is that men tend to do things together, women tend to just be together. ~ Art Jahnke

Friends are God’s apology for relations. ~ Hugh Kingsmille

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ~ François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. ~ Johann Schiller

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ~ Oscar Wilde

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation. ~ Oscar Wilde

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~ Winnie the Pooh