sweet poems for your best friend

Give a woman a job and she grows balls. ~Jack Gelber



It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ~Aeschylus



Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~James Charlton



Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. ~Dennis Ritchie



I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock



Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. ~Agnes Repplier



So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus



The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842



We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins



It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~"Homer Simpson," from the television show The Simpsons



There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. ~Billy Joel



Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com



The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. ~William James



What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson



Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911



It's a public service when a gay chick goes lipstick instead of lumberjack. ~Two and a Half Men, "Alan Harper, Frontier Chiropractor," teleplay by Lee Aronsohn and Mark Roberts, original airdate 15 December 2003, spoken by the character Charlie Harper



The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970



I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau



Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland



Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling. ~Pam Brown