friendship poems and quotes

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~Victor Hugo


One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. ~Dennis A. Peer


Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary


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


Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means. ~Rudolf C. Binding


Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. ~Carl G. Jung


What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike


Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ~Orson Welles


Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935


Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881


You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb


I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. ~Benjamin Harrison


An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honore de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838


It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. ~Josh Billings


A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ~Richard Reeves


In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~Jose Narosky


Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. ~Conan O'Brien


Those clouds are angels' robes. ~Charles Kingsley


His love shone as impartial as the sun. ~Maurice Thompson