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08/14/2005: "Friends and Friendship"

Some friends and friendship quotes sent to me by a friend.

Lin Yutang
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

Benjamin Disraeli: Love and Friendship Quotes
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Mary Kay Ash
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a
secret.

To thank you for your friendship and
inspire us because we don't describe ourselves as good at being friends
here are some quotes I found all about the F word and a related topics:

Elizabeth Dunphy
It's the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless
thrilling magic found only in a friend.

Kahlil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Evelyn Waugh
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse
them.

Irwin Sarason
Good friends are good for your health.


Isabelle Norton
In a friend you find a second self.

Katherine Hathaway
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Joseph B. Wirthlin
Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Oprah Winfrey
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who
will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.

Dr. Suess
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those
who matter don't mind.

Kahlil Gibran
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he
cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he
says but rather what he does not say

Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Dale Carnegie
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but
creatures of emotion.

Woodrow Wilson:
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

George Eliot
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Lisa Alther
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't
like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Art Buchwald
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Thomas Fuller
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Aristotle
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to
attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in
the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Tim McGraw
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of
each other everywhere.

Benjamin Franklin
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each
of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Cicero
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to
vice-

George Bernard Shaw
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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Jeanette Winterson
What you risk reveals what you value.

Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings our the best in me.

Robert C.Edwards
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that

Elbert Hubbard:
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you
anyway.

Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted.

George Adams
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is
necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

Charles Dudley Warner
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of
life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Readers Digest
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a present you give yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.

Jean de la Bruyère
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Spanish Proverb
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.

Walt Whitman
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Lord Byron
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Dr. Robert Schuller
Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Thomas Burke
True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine

Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be
lost.

Czech proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Albert Camus
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead;
walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born.

Henry Brooks Adams
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his
friends.

Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal
to them their own.

Oscar Wilde
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine
nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Art Buchwald
The best things in life aren't things.

Here's the best -

Groucho Marx: Quotes on Friends
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to
read.