poems for best friends

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian


There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. ~Richard Davisson


I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. ~Arnold Toynbee


Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ~Gustave Flaubert


I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore


By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. ~Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. ~Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. ~Robert Frost


It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams


Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch


The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton


Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium. ~Ron Bolton


If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. ~Daniel Marsh, 1950


If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~Barbara Ehrenreich If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler


I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown


I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez


An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. ~Vida D. Scudder


I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate


Soup is liquid comfort. ~Author Unknown


The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993


Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814


Hug someone your appreciation. ~Violet Gartenlicht