A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
Humility must always be the portion of any man
who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers
and the sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is but another name for an alliance
with the follies and the misfortunes of others.
Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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 worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
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 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
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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