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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
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