Quotable Quotes
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—JAN GLIDEWELL
in St. Petersburg Times
A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit, as long as you don’t set up housekeeping.
—DAN BARTOLOVIC
KPUG-KNWR, Bellingham, Wasington.
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
—IVERN BALL
The older you get, the greater you were.
—LEE GROSSCUP
HOME IS A PLACE . . .
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
—JOHN ED PEARCE
in Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine
The fireside is the tulip bed of a winter day.
—PERSIAN PROVERB
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
—G. K. CHESTERTON
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
—MARGARET MEAD
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
—CONFUCIUS
Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
—OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR.
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.
—VERNON G. BAKER
in Courant (Hartford, Connecticut)
My home is here. I feel just as at home overseas, but I think my roots are here and my language is here and my rage is here and my hope is here. You know where your home is because you’ve been there long enough. You know all the peculiarities of the people around you, because you are one of them. And naturally, memories are the most important. Your home is where your favorite memories are.
—PIETER-DIRK UYS
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse . . . and dreams of home.
—CARL BURNS
The Drug Shop
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.
—SAM EWING
in National Enquirer
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
—CHARLES KURALT
North Carolina Is My Home
A small town is a place where there is little to see or do, but what you hear makes up for it.
—IVERN BALL
A small town is a place where everyone knows whose check is good and whose husband is not.
—SID ASCHER
A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.
—Quoted by STEPHEN KING in Down East
There’s nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we’re flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
—ANDREW A. ROONEY
And More by Andy Rooney
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
—GEORGE MOORE
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.
—J. S. FARYNSKI
A TRUE FRIEND . . .
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
—DOUG LARSON
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
—GARTH HENRICHS
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
—JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.
—ROBERTA LIEBERMAN
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
—OPRAH WINFREY
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
—ROBERT BRAULT
It may be true that a touch of indifference is the safest foundation on which to build a lasting and delicate friendship.
—W. ROBERTSON NICOLL
People and Books
Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.
—NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting.
—TODD RUTHMAN
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
—THOMAS J. WATSON SR.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
—WILLIAM BLAKE
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
—GEORGE WASHINGTON
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
—JOHN LEONARD
in Friends and Friends of Friends by Bernard Pierre Wolff
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
—MAYA ANGELOU
The Heart of a Woman
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
—ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-by.
—MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMÉE
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
—EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS
The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you.
—DAVID AUGSBURGER
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 L. ALLEN
Roads to Radiant Living
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
—LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
Among Friends
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
—MERRY BROWNE
in National Enquirer
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
—EMILY DICKINSON
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
—ARISTOTLE
In my friend, I find a second self.
—ISABEL NORTON
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
—HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
—H. G. BOHN
A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.
—The Optimist Magazine
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
—EVELYN WAUGH
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. GLASOW
in The Wall Street Journal
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
—WILLIAM ROTSLER
To a friend’s house, the road is never long.
—ANONYMOUS
A fr
iend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
—Pioneer Girls Leaders’ Handbook
True friendship is like phosphorescence—it glows best when the world around you goes dark.
—DENISE MARTIN
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
—MARK TWAIN
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
—ARNOLD H. GLASOW
It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
—MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Neurotic’s Notebook
The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good.
—SID ASCHER
If it’s painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
—ALICE DUER MILLER
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
—SICILIAN PROVERB
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn’t.
—BERN WILLIAMS
A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.
—Farmers Almanac
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
—ED CUNNINGHAM
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
—ELISABETH FOLEY
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
—CHRISTINE LEEFELDT AND ERNEST CALLENBACH
The Art of Friendship
We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.
—WALKER PERCY
Love in the Ruins
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
—ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
An enemy who tells the truth contributes infinitely more to our improvement than a friend who deludes us.
—LOUIS-N. FORTIN
Pensées, Proverbes, Maximes
It pays to know the enemy—not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
—MARGARET THATCHER
Downing Street Years
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
—ANTISTHENES
A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.
—ENE RIISNA
The best mirror is a friend’s eye.
—GAELIC PROVERB
THE BEST HELPING HAND . . .
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
—JOANN THOMAS
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
—GEORGE ELIOT
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others.
—ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
—Hebrews 13:2
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
—CHARLES DICKENS
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
—SALLY KOCH
in Wisconsin
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
—ALBERT SCHWEITZER
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
—MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
—KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet
He who helps early helps twice.
—TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don’t be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.
—MERRY BROWNE
in National Enquirer
You may give gifts without caring—but you can’t care without giving.
—FRANK A. CLARK
Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
—POPE JOHN XXIII
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
—CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
—FREYA STARK
Perseus in the Wind
Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.
—HECTOR BIANCIOTTI
Sans La Misericorde du Christ
Extending your hand is extending yourself.
—ROD MCKUEN
Book of Days
The miracle is this—the more we share, the more we have.
—LEONARD NIMOY
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
—ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
—MALCOLM S. FORBES
in Forbes magazine
He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
—YUGOSLAV PROVERB
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
—GRETEL EHRLICH
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
—JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Money-giving is a good criterion of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
—DR. KARL MENNINGER
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
—HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
—P. J. O’ROURKE
A Parliament of Whores
We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.
—MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
—CHARLES LAMB
Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax-deductible or not.
—DAN BENNETT
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
—FRANK A. CLARK
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It’s all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
—MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
—BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless.
—ERIC HOFFER
Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the gods.
—HENRY S. HASKINS
—HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
We ought to be careful not to do for a fellow what we only intended to help him do.
—FRANK A. CLARK
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
—WILLIAM H. DAVIS
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
—LAURENCE LEAMER
King of the Night
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.
—BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
—G. K. CHESTERTON
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
—ALTHEA GIBSON