A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.(B. A. Billingsly)
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.(B. A. Billingsly)
May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.(Blessing Irish)
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.(Blessing Irish)
For memory has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made.(Carrie Jacobs Bond)
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.(Elizabeth Bowen)
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.(John Christian Bovee)
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.(Fawn M. Brodie)
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)
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.(Eustace Budgell)