Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

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 dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

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

The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

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

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

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

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