friendship poems for best friends forever

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer



I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~Harold Ross



You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown



The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley



I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings



If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ~Author Unknown



And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993



Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. ~Rita Mae Brown



You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ~The Epic of Gilgamesh



The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. ~Al Gore



It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~Old New York Proverb



Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. ~Fran Lebowitz



We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. ~Mark Twain



The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. ~Brendan Behan



I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. ~Richard Livingstone



Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~Colonel Potter



Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown



My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin