short friendship poems that make you cry

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe



Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Tartuffe



Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony



Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. ~Karl Lagerfeld



Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda. ~Homer Simpson Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family. ~O.C. Ogilvie



The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ~Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues



The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims



John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him. ~Nick Faldo, on John Daly



The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley



To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~Antoine Rivarol



Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases. ~Karl Marx



I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock



History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance. ~R. Jackson Wilson



I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore



Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder



Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. ~Brian Tracy



Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe



Burn rubber, not your soul, baby. ~Craig Fernandez and Reggie Bythewood, Biker Boyz