“To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men!” Old Testament

“The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.” – Laboulaye

“Fish and guests in three days are stable.” – John Lyly

“Friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless ingrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.” – Lord Chesterfield

“Angry friendship is sometimes as bad as calm enmity.” – Edmund Blake

“He will never have a true friend who is afraid of making enemies.” – William Hazlitt

“Save a man from his friends, and leave him struggle with his enemies.” – W.C. Hazlitt

“I can defend myself from my enemies, but not from my friends.” – Honein Ben Isswak

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” – Rochard Graves

“Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Great souls by instinct to each other turn,

Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.” – Addison

“To friendship every burden’s light.” – John Gay

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle

“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

I do not remember to have met with any saying that has pleased me more than that of a friend’s being the medicine of life.” – Unknown

“There are three faithful friends – and old wife, and old dog, and ready money.” – Benjamin Franklin

“A faithful friend is a true image of the deity.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“A friend married is a friend to none.” – Heurik Ibsen

“If Rome dies, other Churches may order their coffins.” – G. Tyrrell

“Going to Church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” – W.A. Billy Sunday

“Nothing can be purchased which is better than a firm friend.” (Amico firmo nihil emi melius potest) – Tacitus

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. – Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again. – Carl Van Doren

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. – Dawn Adams

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. – Ray Bradbury

A good title is the title of a successful book. – Raymond Chandler

A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus T. Cicero

Read much, but not many books. – Benjamin Franklin

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. Adler

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. – Lord Henry P. Brougham

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you. – Richard De Bury

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. – Robert Chambers

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. – Christopher Dawson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read in order to live. – Gustave Flaubert

A simple smile
or telephone call,
they’ll pick you up
if you should fall.

Yes, friends are priceless,
worth every dime-
and I’m so glad
that you are mine

“I have always laid it down as a maxim and found it justified by experience – that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex – but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.” – Lord Byron

“I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.” – Ann Richards

“Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” – Spike Milligan.

“Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.” – Thomas Jones

“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

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.” – Yassir Arafat

“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.” – Dame Edna Everage

“Friendship is love without his wings!” – Lord Byron

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle

“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil – but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely” – Pam Brown

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

“I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.” – Virginia Woolf.

“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.” – Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“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 good friend will bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting beside you say – Damn that was fun!” – Anonymous

“A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Anonymous

“I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” – Mark Twain

“An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.” – Jim Hayes

“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

“Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.” – Edwin Arlington Robinson

“Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.” – Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is like thighs, they are always sticking together. – Anonymous

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

If you fall.. I fall… If you cry .. I cry… I feel the pain you have inside… I’ll always be there for you…

A friend is someone who helps you up if your down, and if they can’t, they’ll lay down beside you and listen.

A friend is not one that says: Go straight
A friend is the one that says: I am going with you

Waters may dry.. flowers may die.. but true friends will never say goodbye…

A friend is someone who believes in you even when you stopped believing in yourself.

The friend is the answer to your desires. But do not seek to kill time! Search her always for alive hours. Because it should fill your needs, but not your emptiness.

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. – Frances Ward Weller

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. – Tim McGraw

When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there. – Anonymous

A true friend is someone who knows there’s something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face.

Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. – Anonymous

The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Anonymous

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you. – Rita Mae Brown

Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice - Anonymous

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

My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane. – Matt Schucker

You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels – Sheila Ballantyne

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie