friendship poems for teenagers

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ~David Ogilvy


Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. ~Charlie Diekatze


Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler


Everything's got a moral if only you can find it. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed


Time is the longest distance between two places. ~Tennessee Williams


The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. ~Alban Goodier


Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding


Her face was her chaperone. ~Rupert Hughes


Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~Vaslav Nijinsky


Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ~James Thurber Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown


Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ~Louisa May Alcott


Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt


Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~John F. Kennedy