It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

—Unknown

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

—Unknown

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

—Unknown

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

—Unknown

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

—Unknown

You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

—Lawana Blackwell

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

—John Churton Collins

All people want is someone to listen.

—Jane Austen