poems for bff

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing



When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. ~John Locke



On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club



Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935



A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown



It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859



We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. ~Anne Hollander



Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them." ~Charles Edward Montague, Dramatic Values



This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw



A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. ~Grantly Dick-Read



When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters. ~George Savile



I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ~Noel Coward, 1956



Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston



I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller



A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus



I am my own heaven and hell! ~J.C.F. von Schiller