friendship poems and quotes for best friends

His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism. ~Orestes Ferrara



Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ~Jimmy DeMaret



Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ~Jules Renard



The best answer to anger is silence. ~Author Unknown



Working without safety is a dead-end job. ~Author Unknown



I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash



Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." ~Herbert Spencer



Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. ~James Bethea



A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~Fred Allen



Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ~Andre Maurois



We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Silence was never written down. ~Italian Proverb



I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. ~Ecclesiastes 9:11



One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~Al Bernstein



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When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Hoss Sense and Nonsense, 1926



A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman