funny friendship poems

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ~Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in Liberty and the Great Libertarians



When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874



Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ~Henry Ford



Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951



If you don't know there's a trampoline in the room, you're not going to dust the ceiling for prints. ~From the television show Law & Order



Angels skip, fairies skip, children skip - why can't you and I skip? ~Jessi Lane Adams



If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888



The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. ~Havelock Ellis



If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson



To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. ~Terri Guillemets



The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~Svetlana Alliluyeva



There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. ~Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 21 September 1957



To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler



Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. ~Christina Rossetti



Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes



Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ~George Eliot



I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years



Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy