poems for best friends birthday

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn



Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois



Most women are one man away from welfare. ~Gloria Steinem



Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. ~R.M. Grenon



I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. ~Henry David Thoreau



Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605



Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens. ~Sepal Felicivant



The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923



A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Author Unknown



No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks



Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom, and closets. ~Author Unknown



They never touch it: consider what an explosion



When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton, 1996



I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952



The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. ~Robert South



The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand



Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~Winston Churchill



And what Thou art may never be destroyed. ~Emily Bronte



Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown