Everyone hears what you say,Friends listen to what you say,Best friends listen to what you don't say.
Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet.
Friends are chocolate chips in the cookie of life!
Friends are like puzzle pieces. If one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced and that puzzle will never be whole again.
Friends forever; never apart, maybe by distance, but not by heart.
Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.
Friendship is a golden chain, the links are friends so dear, and like a rare and precious jewel It's treasured more each year.
A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and who asks for it back when it start to rain.
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other.
Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please, Or let the easily persuaded eyes Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould Of a friend's fancy.
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!
The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn: Your friends are up and buckle on their armor.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]
If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?
It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.