Sunday, July 24, 2011

Me,you,us

toddlerboys-webThe best time to make friends is before you need them.~Ethel Barrymore
There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.  ~Diana Cortes
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.~Author Unknown
‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  ~Benjamin Franklin
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.~E.W. Howe
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.  ~Author Unknown
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.  ~Emil Ludwig
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.  ~Francesco Guicciardini
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.~Gwyneth Paltrow
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Menclus
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.  ~Thomas A. Edison
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack.  Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  ~Plutarch
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.
Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.
One who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
The best mirror in the world is an old friend.
True friends are very difficult to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget.
When you look around and your world is crumbling or when you think no one loves you, your best friend is the one to run to you.
A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be somewhere else.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
A road to a friend’s house is never long.
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Count your age with friends but not with years.
A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
~Abraham Lincoln
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
~Aristotle
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
~Homer
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
~Czech. Proverb

Best friend quotes

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
No road is long with good company.  ~Turkish Proverb
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  “Pooh!” he whispered.  “Yes, Piglet?”  “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw.  “I just wanted to be sure of you.” ~A.A. Milne
A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.  ~Lois Wyse
A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown
If 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.  ~Edgar Watson Howe
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

~William Shakespeare
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~George Santayana
girlshugondock-webShe is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.~Adabella Radici
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.  ~Samuel Johnson
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.  ~Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit
One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.~D.H. Lawrence
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.  ~C.S. Lewis
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.  ~Edith Wharton
There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.  ~Author Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.  ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus
Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another.  Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.  ~Abraham Lincoln
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends stab you in the front.  ~Oscar Wilde
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.  ~Epicurus
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Friendship is a sheltering tree.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine
Friendship is Love, without his wings.  ~Lord Byron
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.  ~Thomas Jefferson