Friends Poems & Random Quotes

 

Friends Poems & Random Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.


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Stewart L. Udall

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.


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Robert Service

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.


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Maureen Murphy

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.


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Michelangelo Buonarroti

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.


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Sophy Burnham

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.


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Jules Renard

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.


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Isaiah IX.22 Bible

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.


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Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity


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Jim Davis

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.


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William Reece Smith, Jr.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.


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Jorge Luis Borges

Life itself is a quotation.

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