"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
- Emma Stacey
"Never kiss a friend. If you have deeper feelings, never reveal them. You will lose that friend forever..."
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus.
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
"I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends."
- Malcom Bradbury
"I don't trust him. We're friends."
- Bertolt Brecht
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
- Mary Catherwood
"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
- Anton Chekhov
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis
"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln,
"The love of my life is the love between friends."
"One's best friend is oneself."
"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"
"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
"Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."
- Girl Scouts Motto
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
"Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you."
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends."
"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
"Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours."
"Make new friends but keep the old,
some are silver and others are Gold"
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
- "Pizza Place Sign"
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."
"True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign
"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrick
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
- Robert Louis Stevenson,
"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
- Collins English Dictionary
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
- Oscar Wilde
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
"The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship."
- William Blake
"Friendship is love with wings."
- Anonymous
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott
"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."
- William Yeats
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
- Helen Keller
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome
"I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
- William Shakespeare
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak."
- John Donne
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly
"Friends have all things in common."
- Plato
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Artistotle
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
- George Eliot
"It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
- Shelly
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner
"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
- Thomas Jefferson
"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
- Francoise Sagan
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
- Kahil Gibran
"There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
- Bejamin Disraeli
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
- Walt Whitman
"True friendship is never serene."
- Marquise de Sevigne
"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
- Anatole Broyard
"Friends are born, not made."
- Henry Adams
"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
- Francis Bacon
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."
- Edith Wharton
"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
- Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale
"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
- Francis Bacon
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
- Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
- James Fenimore Cooper
"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
- Fracis Bacon
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
- Aristotle
"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
- James Francis Byrnes
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
- Cicero
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead"
- Anna Cummins
"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
- Alexander Pope
"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
- Anoymous
"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams
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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." --Abigail Adams
"To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." --Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider." --Saint Augustine
"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending." --Saint Augustine
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish." --Anne Bradstreet
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." --Anne Bradstreet
"The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope." --Jane Welsh Carlyle
"Hope" is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all." --Emily Dickinson
"Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." --Mary Baker Eddy
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!" --Anne Frank
"I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own." --Margaret Fuller
"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly." --Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I'll not listen to reason. . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say." --Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." --Joyce Kilmer
"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest." --Georgia O'Keeffe
"Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered." --The Teaching for Merikare
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." --Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got." --Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them." --Gloria Steinem
"The strongest of all warriors are these two -Time and Patience." --Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves." Letter to King Leopold of Belgium --Victoria
"Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength in search of my mother's garden, I found my own." --Alice Walker
"If all the good people were clever, and all clever people were good, the world would be nicer than ever we thought that it possibly could." --Elizabeth Wordsworth
"A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament." --Émile Zola
"I want to do it because I want to do it." --Amelia Earhart
"The moment somebody says to me this is risky, is the moment it becomes attractive to me." --Kate Capshaw
"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish to provide is strong enough...What do you want most to do? Thats what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties." --Katherine Mansfield
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them." --George Eliot
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." --Bernadette Devlin
"I do not think about risk much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go." --Miss Lillian Carter
"And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything you risk even more." --Erica Jong
"All serious daring starts from within." --Eudora Welty
"No one from the beginning of time has had security." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." --Jacquelin Kennedy Onassis
"To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will." --Judith Guest
"We will live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." --Anne Frank
"Everything is in the mind Thats where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." --Mae West
"I finally Figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." --Rita May Brown
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead." --Losusia May Alcott
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." --Helen Keller
"You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin." --Kathleen Norris
"When ever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before." --Mae West
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." --Mae West
"Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change." --Ingrid Bengis
"I shut my eyes in order to see." --Paul Gauguin
"The universe will reward you for taking a risk on its behalf." --Shakti Gawain
"Desire, ask, believe, receive." --Stella Terrill Mann
"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain." --Rita Mae Brown
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." --Harriet Braiker
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks." --Charlotte Bronte
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success." --Dr Joyce Brothers
"Its good to have money and the things that money can buy, but its good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you havent lost the things that money cant buy." --George Horace Lorimer
"If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims." --Liz Carpenter
"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world." --Christiane Collage
"Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets." --Edna Ferber
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." --Ella Fitzgerald
"Many of lifes failures are people who did no realize how close they were to success when they gave up." --Thomas Edison
"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna...or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out." --Barbara Walters
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say." --Elizabeth Gaskell
"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." --Katharine Hepburn
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