friendship quotes and poems

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ~Mahatma Gandhi


The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841


Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau


If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle. ~Author Unknown


Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd


A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau


Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence. ~Author Unknown


When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice." ~Author Unknown


Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes


Don't make excuses - make good. ~Elbert Hubbard


Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~Jean Martin Charcot, translated from French


Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook


You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


It is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche. We like: naked women, stockings, lesbians, and Sean Connery best as James Bond, because that is what being a boy is. ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve


It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897


A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb


I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~Will Rogers


Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~Aristotle