best friends forever poems

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening


When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ~Mark Twain


You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps. ~Author Unknown


If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? ~Author Unknown


Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales. ~Mark Twain


How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~Norman Douglas


When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud


A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, 1957


As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say... as long as he looks to white folks for approval... then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about. ~August Wilson, .Jr.


They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk. ~Saying of unknown origin


Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ~Sam Austin


If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? ~Walt Whitman Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. ~H.L. Mencken


I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens


A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella


The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ~Warren Chappell


The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz


To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. ~Charles Haas