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Friendship


A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Hold a true friend with both your hands. Nigerian Proverb

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. Samuel Johnson

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. Woodrow Wilson

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship - have become accustomed to your sensoral input and miss it in its absence. Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation

He who is to be happy must have good friends. Aristotle

Jones' motto- Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. Dave Matthews

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. Stone Temple Pilots

Be slow in accepting the favor of someone even when professing the warmest friendship. For when you reveal your need, you will too often see him suddenly turn pale, change the conversation, leave you in the lurch. And for a long time after, you will be a lucky man if you see or hear from him. Leopardi

No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. Charles Dickens

The most valuable antiques are old friends.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

No man deserves to live who has not at least one good man for a true friend. Greek proverb

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy

People who resemble each other get together. French proverb

Give every one your ear, but few your voice; take each person's censure, but reserve your judgment. Shakespeare

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. Chauncey Depew

I will praise any man that will praise me. Shakespeare

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. Mandell Creighton

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. Oscar Wilde

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. Somerset Maugham

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb

My candle burns at both ends, both my friends and enemies admire its beauty. Greg Martin

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, it gives a lovely light. Millay

Your silence will confuse your enemies and delight your friends.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. Tim McGraw

No matter how close to yours Another's steps have grown, In the end there is one dance you'll do alone. Jackson Browne

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope

Small presents keep a friendship alive. French proverb

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak of yourself at all. Pascal

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou are a little queer. Robert Owen

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh

Watch your relationships with other people carefully; be reserved.

Enjoy your friends while they're single; their significant others may not enjoy you. Ron Sitton

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. Kehlog Albran

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are. French proverb

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahil Gilbran

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.

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

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. Lee Iacocca


Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009.
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