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The best way to keep your friends
by Wilson Mizner

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

 

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin

The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that.
But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering
your own best ways to travel with that pain
will lead you to the joy that you long to have.
They are your paths, your ways and while my experience
and the experiences of others may inspire you,
ultimately it will be the choices you discover
and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy
in the midst of your challenges.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter

Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous


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