The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
I like to believe that people in the long run
are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days, governments had better
get out of the way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
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
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
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
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
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
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
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
"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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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