short friendship poems for best friends

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb



If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ~The Talmud



Science is the topography of ignorance. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883



Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin



The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb



For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism



For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn



There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. ~Alice Meynell



The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. ~Ecclesiastes 5:12



I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~Muhammad Ali



To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. ~Lord Chesterfield



Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement. ~Charles Bukowski, Notes on a Dirty Old Man



If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack



There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. ~Author Unknown



Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron



My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977



There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali



Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. ~Albert Schweitzer



Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown