“Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.” -Walter Anderson (born 1944): “The Confidence Course” (1997)
“Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.” -Bill Murray (William James ‘Bill’ Murray (born 1950))
“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.” -Madame de Tencin
“You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.” -Charles A. Allen
“If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people - things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik (Lawrence George Lovasik (1913 - 1986))
“If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they’re great.” -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 (1913 - 1983)
“There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.” -Rebecca West
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” -Francesco Guicciardini (1483 - 1540): “Ricordi”
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.” -Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954)): “The Pure and the Impure” (1933), chapter 9
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.” -Pam Brown (born 1928)
“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.” -William Glasser (1925 - 2013)
“No matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.” -Author Unknown
“The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open, natural, interested; the second rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship, after all, is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons.” -Nels F. Ferré (Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferré (1908 - 1971))
“Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship.” -Thomas Wilson
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Be friendly and you will never want for friends.” -Author Unknown
“How can you be a good friend to your friends? Just ask yourself daily what you would like to have in a good friend, and then do and become those things yourself.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.” -Author Unknown
“Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.” -Frederick W. Faber (Frederick William Faber (1814 - 1863))
Suppose someone came to you and said, “I do not go out because I have no friends, and I have no friends because I do not go out.” What would you say to the person?
“For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person. But, help your friend to become a perfect person. That’s true friendship.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.” -Epictetus (C.E. 55 - C.E. 135)
“Friends aren’t jumper cables. You don’t throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.” -Charlie Krueger
“The time to make friends is before you need them.” -Author Unknown
“Two people cannot remain friends for long if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” -Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696)
“Sow the seeds of kindness, and reap a bounty of friends.” -Author Unknown
“Be careful of the friends you choose, for you will become like them.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.” -Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
“Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.” -George Washington (1732 - 1799)
“There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.” -William Penn (1644 - 1718)
“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
“Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.” -William Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“Love your friend with his fault.” -Author Unknown
“Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years’ steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends.” -John Hay
“Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.” -Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
“Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.” -Jean-Henri Fabre
“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the others’ dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.” -Cyril Connolly (Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903 - 1974))
“In order to have friends, you must first be one.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Essays,” First Series (1841), ‘Friendship’
“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” (1858)
“Promises may get friends, but performance keeps them.” -Author Unknown
“When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick, - no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.” -Chilo
“The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, ‘As we should wish our friends to behave to us.’” -Diogenes Laërtius (lived about C.E. 3rd century): “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers” (about C.E. 200), ‘Book 5: the Peripatetics,’ ‘Aristotle,’ 9
“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.” -E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe (1854 - 1937))
“Do not have evil-doers for friends; do not have low people for friends; have virtuous people for thy friends; have for thy friends the best of men.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Dhammapada” (300 B.C.E.)
“Those who seek faultless friends will remain friendless.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.” -Author Unknown
“If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.” -Ignace Lepp
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation*.” -George Washington (1732 - 1799): as quoted in Jared Sparks, editor: “The Writings of George Washington” (12 volumes, 1833 - 1837), volume 8
*appellation: name or title; also, designation
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” -Author Unknown
“Purchase not friends with gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.” -Thomas Fuller
“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))
“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)): “The Little Prince” (1943)
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))
“Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))
“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.” -Woodrow Wilson (Thomas Woodrow ‘Woodrow’ Wilson (1856 - 1924))
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” -Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two.” -Norman Douglas (1868 - 1952): “Almanac” (1941)
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1929 - 2012)): as quoted in Deborah Norville: “The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success” (2009), page 65
“The recipe of friendship: 1 cup of sharing, 2 cups of caring, 1 cup of forgiveness and hugs and tenderness. Mix all these together to make friends forever.” -Author Unknown
“The secret to friendship is being a good listener.” -Author Unknown
“Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s own self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” -Thomas Hughes
“Develop the art of friendliness. One can experience a variety of emotions staying home and reading or watching television; one will be alive but hardly living. Most of the meaningful aspects of life are closely associated with people. Even the dictionary definition of life involves people.” -William L. Abbott
“Do not let your desire to win an argument ruin a friendship.” -Author Unknown
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another’s little lapses.” -David Storey (David Malcolm Storey (1933 - 2017))
“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.” -Claude Mermet (1550 - 1620)
“When 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.” -E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe (1853 - 1937))
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
For weeds choke the unused path.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
This is MFOL! . . . now go out and make bunches and bunches of friends . . . and introduce them all to each other . . . so that you can live in a world of friends . . .
“Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.” -Bill Murray (William James ‘Bill’ Murray (born 1950))
“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.” -Madame de Tencin
“You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.” -Charles A. Allen
“If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people - things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik (Lawrence George Lovasik (1913 - 1986))
“If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they’re great.” -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 (1913 - 1983)
“There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.” -Rebecca West
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” -Francesco Guicciardini (1483 - 1540): “Ricordi”
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.” -Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954)): “The Pure and the Impure” (1933), chapter 9
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.” -Pam Brown (born 1928)
“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.” -William Glasser (1925 - 2013)
“No matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.” -Author Unknown
“The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open, natural, interested; the second rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship, after all, is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons.” -Nels F. Ferré (Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferré (1908 - 1971))
“Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship.” -Thomas Wilson
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Be friendly and you will never want for friends.” -Author Unknown
“How can you be a good friend to your friends? Just ask yourself daily what you would like to have in a good friend, and then do and become those things yourself.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.” -Author Unknown
“Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.” -Frederick W. Faber (Frederick William Faber (1814 - 1863))
Suppose someone came to you and said, “I do not go out because I have no friends, and I have no friends because I do not go out.” What would you say to the person?
“For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person. But, help your friend to become a perfect person. That’s true friendship.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.” -Epictetus (C.E. 55 - C.E. 135)
“Friends aren’t jumper cables. You don’t throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.” -Charlie Krueger
“The time to make friends is before you need them.” -Author Unknown
“Two people cannot remain friends for long if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” -Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696)
“Sow the seeds of kindness, and reap a bounty of friends.” -Author Unknown
“Be careful of the friends you choose, for you will become like them.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.” -Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
“Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.” -George Washington (1732 - 1799)
“There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.” -William Penn (1644 - 1718)
“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
“Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.” -William Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“Love your friend with his fault.” -Author Unknown
“Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years’ steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends.” -John Hay
“Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.” -Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
“Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.” -Jean-Henri Fabre
“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the others’ dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.” -Cyril Connolly (Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903 - 1974))
“In order to have friends, you must first be one.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Essays,” First Series (1841), ‘Friendship’
“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” (1858)
“Promises may get friends, but performance keeps them.” -Author Unknown
“When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick, - no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.” -Chilo
“The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, ‘As we should wish our friends to behave to us.’” -Diogenes Laërtius (lived about C.E. 3rd century): “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers” (about C.E. 200), ‘Book 5: the Peripatetics,’ ‘Aristotle,’ 9
“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.” -E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe (1854 - 1937))
“Do not have evil-doers for friends; do not have low people for friends; have virtuous people for thy friends; have for thy friends the best of men.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Dhammapada” (300 B.C.E.)
“Those who seek faultless friends will remain friendless.” -Author Unknown
“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.” -Author Unknown
“If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.” -Ignace Lepp
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation*.” -George Washington (1732 - 1799): as quoted in Jared Sparks, editor: “The Writings of George Washington” (12 volumes, 1833 - 1837), volume 8
*appellation: name or title; also, designation
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” -Author Unknown
“Purchase not friends with gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.” -Thomas Fuller
“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))
“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)): “The Little Prince” (1943)
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))
“Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))
“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.” -Woodrow Wilson (Thomas Woodrow ‘Woodrow’ Wilson (1856 - 1924))
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” -Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two.” -Norman Douglas (1868 - 1952): “Almanac” (1941)
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1929 - 2012)): as quoted in Deborah Norville: “The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success” (2009), page 65
“The recipe of friendship: 1 cup of sharing, 2 cups of caring, 1 cup of forgiveness and hugs and tenderness. Mix all these together to make friends forever.” -Author Unknown
“The secret to friendship is being a good listener.” -Author Unknown
“Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s own self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” -Thomas Hughes
“Develop the art of friendliness. One can experience a variety of emotions staying home and reading or watching television; one will be alive but hardly living. Most of the meaningful aspects of life are closely associated with people. Even the dictionary definition of life involves people.” -William L. Abbott
“Do not let your desire to win an argument ruin a friendship.” -Author Unknown
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another’s little lapses.” -David Storey (David Malcolm Storey (1933 - 2017))
“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.” -Claude Mermet (1550 - 1620)
“When 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.” -E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe (1853 - 1937))
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
For weeds choke the unused path.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
This is MFOL! . . . now go out and make bunches and bunches of friends . . . and introduce them all to each other . . . so that you can live in a world of friends . . .
