best friend quotes and poems

For many are called, but few are chosen. ~Matthew 22:14


A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. ~Francis Bacon, Essays


Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko


Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. ~Robert Kirby


Chiastic quotation: see Chiasmus.


People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman


When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ~George Raveling


Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige


Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. ~Seneca


Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ~Franklin P. Jones


Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya


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


Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams. ~Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence


Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott


Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. ~Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891


For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It's about time we brought some balance back to the scale. ~Claire Todae