Friends Worth Quoting
May 19, 2009 by GradingGirl
Filed under Quotable Quotations, TLC Speaks
Because I’m an English and speech teacher, quotations inspire me to share wisdom. Because I’m a romantic, quotations inspire me to appreciate life.
Leaves of Friendship
Today’s inspiration . . . Friendship ~
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain (sounds like summer break to me)
“We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.”
– Margaret Guenther (amen)
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
– Henry Ward Beecher (hard to do, but true)
“The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
– Mark Twain (his wit is timeless)
” ‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary”
– Louisa May Alcott (a charming writer)
“To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.”
– Norman Douglas (haha . . . there’s something to that)
“Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (transcendentalist with a heart)
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (enough said)
