Friendship Quotes - Page 20

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

My books are friends that never fail me."

(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

But despite these and many other differences, Evan and Heeb had become close friends – an improbability that could have been produced only by the even greater improbabilities that brought them together.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.

Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom

Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.

Seek success for your existing friends instead of seeking friendship with the successful.

The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday.

If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.