friendship poems short

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ~Mark Twain



The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ~George Miller



Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922



Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst



The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. ~Lynn Lavner



Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark



You're only as sick as your secrets. ~Author Unknown



To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. ~Author Unknown



To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed. ~Edna O'Brien



They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career. ~W.E. Orchard



Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~Confucius, Analects



Homecoming unites the past and the present. ~Author Unknown



To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ~Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995



Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ~Galway Kinnell



Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. ~Andrew Carnegie



Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. ~Author Unknown



Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu



A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb



You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla



God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. ~Thomas Huxley