A Quotes
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“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.”
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.”
“A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.”
“A fresh, uplifting mélange of Italian bergamot, mandarin, and raspberry that comprised the opening accord filled her nostrils with the carefree scents of spring. Her imagination soared with memories. The gardens of Bellerose, picnic baskets bursting with summer fruits on sunny Mediterranean beaches, summers spent on the Riviera, yacht parties, and the casino in Monte Carlo. The plain little bottle held the essence of the happy life she had known.
She inhaled again, closed her eyes, and allowed her mind to wander, to visualize the images the aroma evoked. Excitement coursed through her veins. She imagined a glamorous, luxurious lifestyle of exotic locales, mysterious lovers, sandy beaches, glittering parties, elegant gowns, and precious jewels.
And amid it all, sumptuous bouquets of fabulous flowers, enchanting and romantic, intense aromas of pure, bridal white jasmine and sultry tuberose, and the heady, evocative aroma of rose. Seductive spices, clove with musk and patchouli, smoothed with sandalwood and vanilla, elegant and sensual, like a lover in the night.
And finally, she realized what was missing. A strong, smooth core, a warm amber blend that would provide a deep connection to the soul. Love.”
Source: Scent of Triumph
“A fresh year, a fresh life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.”
Source: Mary Chesnut's Diary
“A freshly red-painted train caboose had, for decades now, made its home on a green, little patch of the world outside of the one-room post office. Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.”
“A freshman congresswoman was demanding an investigation into whoever hacked her Flat Earth support group. It could spell the end of the entire flat planet if the FBI, Homeland Security, and her hometown library couldn’t track the subversive bastards down.”
Source: Loop
“A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.”
“A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham
“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.”
“A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.”
“A friend ... said, "You were healed by faith." "Oh, no," I said, "I was healed by Christ." What is the difference? There is a great difference. There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus. I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I laboured to get the faith. At last I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought I had got the faith, "Heal me." I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.”
“A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.”
“A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.”
Source: Living Out Loud
“A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.”
“A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.
Three or four nights later I had a dream. I was driving. To my right I saw
baby cranes — blue-green, all legs, beak, and wings — standing in a field. They took off and crashed, took off and crashed. I stopped the car and got out. "That looks like it hurts. Why do you do it?" One of the cranes looked me square in the eye. "We may not fly very well yet, but at least we aren't walking."
I awoke, happy. From that moment, there has been no turning back.”
Source: A Language Older Than Words
“A friend asked one of my daughters, "Do you like politics?" And my daughter said, "No, I don't. And the reason I don't like it is because there's too much fighting, too much yelling. It's so loud, I don't like it." You know, I turned to my friend and I said, "You know, she's really on to something."”
“A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?”
“A friend asks, "Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship." Another friend says, "LISTEN!”
Source: Adventus
“A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?”
“A friend came over to the house
a few days ago and read one of my poems.
He came back today and asked to read the
same poem over again. After he finished
reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
“A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.' Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.' Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!”
“A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself”
“A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.”
“A friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby”
“A friend comes over with a Ouija board.
It spells out: Bourbon. Where’s the band?
Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you can’t
have fun.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.”
“A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -- and he's a priest.”
Source: The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“A friend dropped in on him after a gig and asked what was new. "Nothin' new," he said. "White folks still ahead.”
Source: Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
“A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;
“A friend forgives quicker than enemy, and family forgives quicker than a friend.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A friend from Boston wrote something to me last week
about not having the intelligence
to take as subject for his poems
anything other than his own life.”
Source: Another Attempt at Rescue
“A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."”
“A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.”
“A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.”
“A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."”
“A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.”
“A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”
Source: Protector of the Small Quartet
“A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?”
“A friend in deed is a friend indeed.”
“A friend in need becomes always a friend in need if you help him once......”
“A friend in need, is a friend indeed, cause we all need Jesus Christ and if he 's aware and understands that then he is a friend in faith.”
“A friend in need is a friend indeed!”
Source: Collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases ... To which is added, 'The way to wealth' by Benjamin Franklin
“A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.”
“A friend in need needs a friend, indeed.”
Source: Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.”
“A friend in word is never friend of mine.”
Source: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.”
Source: The Unseen Friend