What is a true friend? (sooth sayings and such)

by MsMcDucket 7 Replies latest jw friends

  • MsMcDucket
    MsMcDucket

    I love this aphorism about a true friend:

    "Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." SAMUEL PATERSON

    Theres another one that said "Friends should be few and well-read like a good book".

    This is two of my favorite comical sayings by Jack Handy:

    "If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone."

    "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."

    http://www.laughbreak.com/quotes/deep_thoughts__by_jack_handy_.html

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    Here are some other sayings about books and such:

    "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

    "Numbers are mearly (sic) words without the soul."
    ANON

    "Education is the best provision for old age."
    ARISTOTLE

    "Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
    W.H. AUDEN

    "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
    FRANCIS BACON

    "The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."
    WALTER BAGEHOT

    "When I am dead, I hope it may be said his sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
    HILAIRE BELLOC

    "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
    ROBERT BENCHLEY

    "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."
    THOMAS BERGER

    "The covers of this book are too far apart."

    "Libraries are not made; they grow."
    AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

    "I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library..." BORGES

    "Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
    RAY BRADBURY

    "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
    RAY BRADBURY

    http://www.inprint.co.uk/thebookguide/quotes_a-z.htm
    AMBROSE BIERCE

  • momzcrazy
    momzcrazy

    I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand. That's what friends do.

    If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

    Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it. Your enemies won't believe it.

    momz

  • MsMcDucket
    MsMcDucket

    I like those Momz. You know me and you have the same nick. Sort of. Mine's is "Momsy".

  • momzcrazy
    momzcrazy

    That would be a nice one. My kids just always tell me I'm crazy. I'm just having fun and loving life!

    momz

  • Locutus of Borg
    Locutus of Borg

    A friend will help you move . . .

    A REAL friend will help you move a body . .

  • R.Crusoe
    R.Crusoe

    A true friend is knowing there's something you've never found when you look at others who've found it!

  • AWAKE&WATCHING
    AWAKE&WATCHING

    A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart - and will sing it back to you when you've forgotten the words.

  • *summer*
    *summer*

    "A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though he knows you are slightly cracked..."

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