love and friendship quotes and poems

Not savages? and what else are we, I ask you? We are worse savages than the Australian bushmen, since possessing the knowledge of our savagery, we persist in it. ~"The Mission," Chapter 6



When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the fire. ~Author Unknown



It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass. ~Hugh McKean, this is not referring to jewelry but to Tiffany's glass



Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb



From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. ~Mabel Louise Robinson



Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau



Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003



Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover -



When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~William Shakespeare



The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. ~Garrison Keillor



Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis



Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb



I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. ~Bella Abzug



Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook, 1779



Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ~Will Rogers



There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ~P.G. Wodehouse



Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ~R. Buckminister Fuller



Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost



I like intellectual reading. It's to my mind what fiber is to my body. ~Grey Livingston