Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ...
by Mencius
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Sayings by Mencius
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friends Sayings
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich 
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God Sayings
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
You are within God.
God is within you.
- Peace Pilgrim
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
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