pics of friendship poems

God made death so we'd know when to stop. ~Steven Stiles



We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley



Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them. ~Michel de Montaigne Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem



The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. ~George Sanders



Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur? ~Irish Saying



Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights. ~Author Unknown



To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks



All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas Carlyle



Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. ~William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1601



Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth. ~Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, "Sources, References, and Notes," 1984



To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne



No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. ~Abigail Charleson



Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. ~Ezra Pound



What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams



There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. ~Steve Martin There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? ~Peter Andrews



God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb



Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. ~Richard Kemph



Our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black, and white - and we're all precious in God's sight. ~Jesse Jackson, speech at Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 July 1984