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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
"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."
"My friends are my estate."
"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
"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.
"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."
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
"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."
"I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends."
"I don't trust him. We're friends."
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
"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..."
The following Girl Scouts Motto has been submitted by many people in varying forms, so I've just placed the three most popular versions on:
1) "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the
other gold"
"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."
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
The following 5 quotes were sent by Danielle N. Redfield - Thanks!!
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Anais Nin
- Emily Dickinson
- Emma Stacey
- sent by David
- sent by Paulo Louro
- Sent by Donna Roberts
- Sent by Lysha
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus. Sent by clovers
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
- sent by Steve
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" )
- by John Leonard
- Elbert Hubard
- John Lennon
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
- Malcom Bradbury
- Bertolt Brecht
- Mary Catherwood
- Anton Chekhov
- C. S. Lewis
- Logan Pearsall Smith
- (sent by Dior Yamasaki)
- Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers)
- (sent by Jess)
- (sent by Jess)
- (sent by Heather Tallent)
- Guido
2) "Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."
3) "Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold"
- (sent by Steve Klaka)
- (sent by Steve Klaka)
- (sent by spiff)
- (sent by Jennifer Chen)
- "Pizza Place Sign", (sent by Rory Bristol)
"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, (sent by Julio Fung)
"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 (sent by Deanne Pigdon)
"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams
There's a miracle called friendship That dwells within the heart, And you don't know how it happens Or how it gets its start... But the happiness it brings you Always gives a special lift, And you realize that friendship Is the most precious gift! Have a Great Day!! Jessica Tema : The Miracle of Friendship Fecha : Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:58:17 PDT
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since August 10, 1999...A MIS AMIGOS...
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