short best friends forever poems

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. ~Edmund Arthur Helps



Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont



To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. ~Robert Copeland



There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ~Virginia Woolf



Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author Unknown



When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ~Anatole France



One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence



There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people has the right to impose definitions of reality on others. ~Liz Stanley and Sue Wise



When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets



Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ~Norman Douglas



I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them. ~Harry Toscano



A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. ~Peter McArthur



Loco citato: at the place quoted, from the same place; abbreviated loc. cit.



Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition



If men had more up top we'd need less up front. ~Jaci Stephen



Caffeine Allocation Error: COFFEE.SYS missing, Programmer halted. ~Author Unknown



Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant