2006-06-14 22:31:15 · 9 answers · asked by Kochuvava 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Author: (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), American diplomat, writer, US First Lady
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Author: Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th US President
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Author: Albert Camus (1913-60), French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author: Ancient Proverb
With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.
Author: Anonymous
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Author: Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Author: Arnold Bennett
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Author: Baltasar Gracian (1601-56), Spanish Jesuit writer of the Golden Age
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), Writer, author
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Author: Christine Leefeldt
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Author: Dean Koontz, American horror author
A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
Author: Doris Wild Helmering
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
Author: Doug Larson
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Author: Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), British writer, lexicographer, wrote "Dictionary of the English Language"
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Author: E. W. Howe
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Author: Eugene Kennedy
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Author: Fr. Jerome Cummings
Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be.
Author: Gary Harrington
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Author: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Author: George Eliot (1819-80), [Mary Ann Evans] British writer
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Author: Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American writer, author, naturalist, "Civil Disobedience" "Walden"
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
Author: Henry Ford (1863-1953) founder of Ford Motor Company
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-78), 36th US Vice President, Democrat
Good friends are good for your health.
Author: Irwin Sarason
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Author: Joan Walsh Anglund (b. 1926), American children's author, illustrator
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Author: Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Author: Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity.
Author: Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-born American mystic poet, painter, "The Prophet"
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65), [The Younger] Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, tutor
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman statesman, orator, philosopher
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910), [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] American author, humorist
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910), [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] American author, humorist
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Author: John Lennon
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Author: Mary Catherwood
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
Author: C.S. Lewis
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
Author: Cher
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Author: Francois Mocuria
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
Author: John Boyle O'Reilly
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Author: Wilson Mizner
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
Author: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
Author: Francoise Sagan
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
Author: Anatole Broyard
Friends are born, not made.
Author: Henry Adams
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.
Author: Francis Bacon
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.
Author: Tehyi Hsieh
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Author: 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.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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?
Author: 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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
Author: James Francis Byrnes
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.
Author: Anna Cummins
Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.
Author: Anonymous
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Author: Barbara DeAngelis
And Pooh said to Piglet "Life is so much friendlier with two."
Author: A. A. Milne
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Author: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President
The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day
Author: Hilda Brett Farr
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Author: Helen Keller
Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again.
Author: Lee Wilkinson
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
Author: William Arthur Ward
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Author: Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th US President
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Author: Alice Walker
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Author: Ann Richards
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
Author: Anna Garlin Spencer
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Author: Audre Lorde
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
Author: Ben Jonson
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
Author: Simone Weil
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
Author: Simone Weil
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Author: Seneca
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Author: Robert McAfee Brown
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
Author: Robert Frost
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
Author: Samuel Johnston
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Author: Henri Nouwen
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Author: Indira Gandhi
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Author: It's a Wonderful Life
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Author: Jane Austen
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Author: Jane Austen
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Author: Katherine Mansfield
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Author: La Rochefoucauld
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Author: Mark Twain
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Author: Mark Twain
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Author: Mohandas K. Gandhi
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Author: Norman Douglas
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Author: Mencius
True friendship is never serene.
Author: Mariede Svign
It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
Author: Marlene Dietrick
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Author: Mother Theresa
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Author: Aristotle
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.
Author: Cicero
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best mirror is an old friend.
Author: George Herbert
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Author: Saint Jerome
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.
Author: Shakespeare
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Author: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President
Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.
Author: John Donne
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Author: George Eliot
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
Author: George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Author: George Santayana
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Author: Confucius
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
Author: Jacques Delille
A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your friendships in repair.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Author: Samuel Johnston
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
Author: Duc de la Rochefoucauld
If it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
Author: George Washington
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Author: George Washington
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
Author: George Washington
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Author: Epicurus
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Author: Samuel Johnston
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Author: Sallust
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Author: Socrates
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil--but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.
Author: Pam Brown
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Author: Paul Aubuchon
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Author: Randolph S. Bourne
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Author: Saint Basil (329-379 A.D.), [The Great] bishop of Caesarea
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Author: Samuel Butler
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet, critic
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Author: Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Bengali writer known for collection of poetry "Gitanjali"
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.
Author: Steve Tesich
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Author: Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English clergyman
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Author: Sylvia Bremer
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Author: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British author
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Author: Walter Winchell
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.
Author: Anais Nin
My friends are my estate.
Author: Emily Dickinson
A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Author: Len Wein
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Author: Elbert Hubard
Friends have all things in common.
Author: Plato
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Author: Aristotle
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Author: Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Author: George Eliot
It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm...
Author: Shelly
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.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Author: Walt Whitman
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest,
Author: Alexander Pope
Friends are like smakerals of fun. You can never have too many.
Author: Pooh
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
Author: William Blake
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
Author: C.S. Lewis
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Author: Confucius
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Author: David Hume
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Author: Deng Ming-Dao
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. Charlotte in “Charlotte’s Web”
Author: E.B. White
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Author: E.M. Forster
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Author: E.R. Bulwer-Lytton
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Author: Edgar Watson Home
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Author: Elie Wiesel
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We need not think alike to love alike.
Author: Francis David
HOPE THIS HELPS
2006-06-15 00:28:14 · answer #1 · answered by Gary 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 04:34:26 · answer #2 · answered by ridinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Love is friendship set on fire.
A friend is one who remembers the words to the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
No man is a failure who has friends.
2006-06-14 22:34:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can
be learned.
2006-06-14 22:40:21 · answer #4 · answered by Angus. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a friend in need is a friend indeed.
(although common quotations but truee indeed)
2006-06-14 22:40:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
friendship is when all the crap sticks to you and your mate is there to clean it off!!!
2006-06-14 22:36:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend is need is a friend indeed.
be my friend "K" then I'll give you no. of quotes.
2006-06-14 22:39:30 · answer #7 · answered by sultan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
allo mate
2006-06-14 22:35:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
friends are like angles we dont always see them but they are always there!
2006-06-14 23:04:19 · answer #9 · answered by life7tara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋