best friends forever poems and quotes
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ~Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. ~Laplace, Theorie analytique des probabilites, 1820
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans 12:21
It's a man's world, and you men can have it. ~Katherine Anne Porter
Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus. ~Martin H. Fischer
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me. ~Robert M. McCheyne
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~Thomas Szasz
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. ~Abraham Lincoln
If the world was flat I'd probably swim off it. ~Author Unknown
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault. ~Nat Hentoff
Investors have very short memories. ~Roman Abramovich
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer