friendship poems

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. ~Robert Benchley



Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966



War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta



When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff



But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may, perchance, be further polished, and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice, but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance. ~Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning



Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens. ~Sepal Felicivant



Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill. ~Steve Miller, www.born-today.com/Choose_bDay.htm



My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. ~Faye Moskowitz



Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ~G.B. Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists," 1898



But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least.... ~Hermann Weyl



The horse is God's gift to mankind. ~Arabian Proverb



Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823



It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. ~George Bernard Shaw



It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~Albert Camus



We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~Levende Waters



The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset, Historical Reason



Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ~Cotton Mather