
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
Once I knew only darkness and stillness ...
my life was without past or future ...
but a little word from the fingers of another
fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness,
and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
- Helen Keller
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw,
hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
Relevant detail, couched in concrete,
colorful language, is the best way
to recreate the incident as it happened
and to picture it for the audience.
- Dale Carnegie
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
The Sweetest Strawberry:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.
He fled, the tiger after him.
Coming to a precipice,
he caught hold of the root of a wild vine
and swung himself over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where,
far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him.
Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black,
little by little started to gnaw away the vine.
The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him.
Grasping the vine with one hand,
he plucked the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted.
- Zen Koan
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
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, Jr.
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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