A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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It is better to learn late than never.
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It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
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We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
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
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
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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