friendship poems short

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. ~Author Unknown



Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ~Doug Larson



It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici



Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. ~George Eliot



Advertising is only another form of statistics. ~Hartman Jule



The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. ~Jessi Lane Adams



History is petrified imagination. ~Arthur Baer



Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"



Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. ~Beth McCollister



I eat merely to put food out of my mind. ~N.F. Simpson



It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook



Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... It's perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze. ~Raymond Chandler, 1950



Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg



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



A man's library is a sort of harem. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. ~Ambrose Bierce



In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. ~Gene Perret



Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827