"If you deceive someone, you lose one of
life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without
trust, love is not possible". Osho
Sometimes the lies you tell are less
frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling
them. Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide
to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
A friend is one of the nicest things you can
have, and one of the best
things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million
little things. ~Author Unknown
A single rose can be my garden… a single
friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when
your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one
friend. ~Aristotle
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner
fire goes out. It is then
burst into flame by an encounter with another
human being. We should
all be thankful for those people who rekindle
the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when
they’re not so good, and
sympathizes with your problems when they’re
not so bad. ~Arnold H.
Glasgow
The friend is the man who knows all about
you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown
If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by
asking if there is
anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
~Edgar Watson Howe
The most I can do for my friend is simply be
his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way unless
you happen to be going
down.
~Arnold Glasow
But if the while I think on thee, dear
friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare
The most beautiful discovery true friends
make is that they can grow
separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to
forgive a friend. ~William Blake
A friend is the only person you will let into
the house when you are
Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown
One’s friends are that part of the human race
with which one can be
human.
~George Santayana
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings
it to me when my memory
fails.
~Donna Roberts
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it
would be Comfort.
~Terri Guillemets
If a man does not make new acquaintances as
he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in
constant repair. ~Samuel Johnson
True friendship comes when silence between
two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of
yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a
permanent job. ~Laurence J.
Peter
Friends are those rare people who ask how you
are and then wait for
the answer.
~Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the
whole world has gone out.
~Grace Pulpit
One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds
with the world, how much
one’s friends who believe in one rather
generously, mean to one.
~D.H. Lawrence
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy,
like art…. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those
things that give value to
survival.
~C.S. Lewis
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric
of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry;
I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is
friendship.
~Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could
sit on a porch with,
never saying a word, and walk away feeling
like that was the best
conversation you’ve had. ~Author Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but
meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a
good egg even if you are
half-cracked.
~Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by
angels. ~Author Unknown
It’s important to our friends to believe that
we are unreservedly
frank with them, and important to the friendship
that we are not.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook,
1960
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m.
that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she
gather them and give them back to me in all
the right order. It’s
good, you know, when you got a woman who is a
friend of your mind.
~Toni Morrison, Beloved
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh
truth, wanting ten times more
to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault
Friends can be said to "fall in
like" with as profound a thud as
romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a
friend who is really a
friend.
~Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we
should cast the gift of a
loving thought into the heart of a friend,
that would be giving as the
angels give.
~George MacDonald
A real friend is someone who would feel loss
if you jumped on a train,
or in front of one. ~Author Unknown
Silences make the real conversations between
friends. Not the saying
but the never needing to say is what
counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck,
answer Without Ceasing
Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
the holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë
Our most difficult task as a friend is to
offer understanding when we
don’t understand. ~Robert Brault
The friend within the man is that part of him
which belongs to you and
opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is
opened to another. Such
a friend is true, and all he says is true;
and he loves you even if he
hates you in other mansions of his
heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from
French by Stuart Gilbert
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though
passion may have strained, it must not break
our bonds of affection.
The mystic cords of memory will swell when
again touched as surely
they will be by the better angels of our
nature. ~Abraham Lincoln
Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass
the day with you in serious
and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you,
dusting beside you, reading the back half of
the paper while you read
the front.
We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think
of you very often. I don’t want to lose this happy space where I
have
found someone who is smart and easy and
doesn’t bother to check her
diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the
Body, 1992
t takes a long time to grow an old
friend. ~John Leonard
He who has a thousand friends has not a
friend to spare, and he who
has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde
How simple a thing it seems to me that to
know ourselves as we are,
we must know our mothers' names.
Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
The world is full of women blindsided by the
unceasing demands of
motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job
can be terrific and
torturous.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the
recognition of the ironies
and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just
pure, unthinking delight.
Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
Bern Williams
The place of the father in the modern
suburban family is a very small
one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The most remarkable thing about my mother is
that for thirty years she
served the family nothing but leftovers. The
original meal has never
been found.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
My parents only had one argument in
forty-five years. It lasted
forty-three years.
Cathy Ladman
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father
was right, he usually
has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth
Your parents, they give you your life, but
then they try to give you
their life.
Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible
Monsters, 1999
The first half of our lives is ruined by our
parents, and the second
half by our children.
Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
If your parents never had children, chances
are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett (1936 - )
A mother is not a person to lean on but a
person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O
Magazine, May 2003
The art of mothering is to teach the art of
living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
The central struggle of parenthood is to let
our hopes for our
children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your
own, for so long a time as
it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a
sad soul.
Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
Losing a baby is not a thing that you could
ever get used to.
Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon
the children.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
There is…nothing to suggest that mothering
cannot be shared by several people.
H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all
believe that our
children are the most beautiful children in
the world. But the thing
is, what no one really talks about is the
fact that we all really
believe it.
Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 05-04-06
This is part of the essence of motherhood,
watching your kid grow into
her own person and not being able to do
anything about it. Otherwise
children would be nothing more than pets.
Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 11-15-05
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers:
most are worse, and a
few are better than their fathers.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
The most important thing she'd learned over
the years was that there
was no way to be a perfect mother and a
million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003
It does not always follow that good men are
good fathers.
Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
The thing that impresses me the most about
America is the way parents
obey their children.
King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity.
Better they should realize
it before and not after they become
responsible for a son.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
My mother had a great deal of trouble with
me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Parents are never as bad as kids think they
are.
Matt Witten, House M.D., Cursed, 2004
Parents were invented to make children happy
by giving them something
to ignore.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Some are kissing mothers and some are
scolding mothers, but it is love
just the same.
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O
Magazine, May 2003
My father hated radio and could not wait for
television to be invented
so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
There was a time when we expected nothing of
our children but
obedience, as opposed to the present, when we
expect everything of
them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard
I would be the most content if my children
grew up to be the kind of
people who think decorating consists mostly
of building enough
bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
Grown-ups never understand anything for
themselves, and it is tiresome
for children to be always and forever
explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944),
"The Little Prince", 1943
Human beings are the only creatures that
allow their children to come
back home.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )
People who get nostalgic about childhood were
obviously never children.
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
If you can give your son or daughter only one
gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
The first half of our lives is ruined by our
parents, and the second
half by our children.
Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
Facing a mirror you see merely your own
countenance; facing your child
you finally understand how everyone else has
seen you.
Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006
If your parents never had children, chances
are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett (1936 - )
The test of the morality of a society is what
it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
The best way to keep children home is to make
the home atmosphere
pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your
own, for so long a time as
it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a
sad soul.
Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only
if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
I must take issue with the term 'a mere
child,' for it has been my
invariable experience that the company of a
mere child is infinitely
preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal (1925 - )
A child of five would understand this. Send
someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
My mother loved children -- she would have
given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I have found the best way to give advice to
your children is to find
out what they want and then advise them to do
it.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
It is not giving children more that spoils
them; it is giving them
more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray, "Children Are From
Heaven"
You know that children are growing up when
they start asking questions
that have answers.
John J. Plomp
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
The thing that impresses me the most about
America is the way parents
obey their children.
King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
Outings are so much more fun when we can
savor them through the
children's eyes.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the
Vicar's Daughter, 1998
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia
Clark, 1999
People who say they sleep like a baby usually
don't have one.
Leo J. Burke
Children might or might not be a blessing,
but to create them and then
fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar",
1991
Our children change us... whether they live
or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar",
1991
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity.
Better they should realize
it before and not after they become
responsible for a son.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
You don't pay back your parents. You can't.
The debt you owe them gets
collected by your children, who hand it down
in turn. It's a sort of
entailment. Or if you don't have children of
the body, it's left as a
debt to your common humanity. Or to your God,
if you possess or are
possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody
spots a phony quicker
than a child.
Mary MacCracke
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