best friendship quotes and sayings

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~Jane Austen



Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi



It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home. ~Author Unknown



Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ~Cyril Connolly



Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon



If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for. ~Patricia Lynch



There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. ~Katharine Whitehorn



For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ~John Gardner



We are punished by our sins, not for them. ~Elbert Hubbard



So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. ~Auckland Geddes, The Practitioner



If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you. ~Author Unknown



The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe



Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that. ~Pete Davies



It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James



Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card



Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others. ~Romain Rolland



The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown



History is a great dust heap. ~Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta



Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. ~Attributed to John Wagner



She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."