Posts Tagged ‘Proverb’

Intl. Friendship Week (20th Feb – 26th Feb)

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them.

“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

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”
Nigerian Proverb

Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William Rotsler

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit with on a porch swing, never saying a word, and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve ever had.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

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

Most people walk in and out of you life, but only friends leave footprints in your heart.

Some people make the world special just by being in it.

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

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.

True friendship never ends. Friends are forever.

There is no better doctor than a true friend.

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

Enter as strangers, leave as friends.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you always know they are there.

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.

Some people make the world special just by being in it.

Seasons may come and go but a friend is forever.

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away they were meant to be there…to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become.

“Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle

I asked God for water, he gave me an ocean.
I asked God for a flower, he gave me a garden.
I asked God for a tree, he gave me a forest.
I asked God for a friend, he gave me YOU.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people become friends and stay a while…
Leaving beautiful footprints on our hearts…
And we are never quite the same
Because we have made a good friend!!

What is a friend?
It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.”

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
Winnie the Pooh

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
John Churton Collins

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.

We don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be somewhere else.
Len Wein

Real friends are those who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel that you’ve done a permanent job.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time stands still at that glorious moment when you realize you’ve found a new friend.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.”
Stone Temple Pilots

“I’ll lean on you and you lean on me and we’ll be okay.”
Dave Mathews Band

Once perfect strangers, now perfect friends.

Friends are like pockets, everyone needs them.

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”
Tim McGraw

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

It’s the friends that you can call at 4AM that really matter.
Marlene Dietrich

Hug Day (14th Feb)

A hug is the shortest distance between friends.
Author Unknown

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
Bil Keane, “Family Circus”

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.
Jacques Prévert

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
Leo Buscaglia

You can’t wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.
Author Unknown

Hug Department: Always Open
Author Unknown

I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time.
Drew Barrymore

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Arm ourselves for war? No! All the arms we need are for hugging.
Author Unknown

I will not play at tug o’ war
I’d rather play at hug o’ war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs….
Shel Silverstein

A hug is a handshake from the heart.
Author Unknown

You can’t give a hug without getting a hug.
Author Unknown

A hug delights and warms and charms,
that must be why God gave us arms.
Author Unknown

Hugs are the universal medicine.
Author Unknown

A hug is a great gift – one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.
Author Unknown

Happiness is an unexpected hug.
Author Unknown

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.
Proverb

If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.
Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

There’s nothing like a mama-hug.
Terri Guillemets

Hugs grease the wheels of the world.
Author Unknown

Hug someone your appreciation.
Violet Gartenlicht

A hug is worth a thousand words.
Author Unknown

Have you hugged yourself today?
Anonymous

A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms.
Author Unknown

I don’t discriminate – I’m an equal-opportunity hugger.
Author Unknown

Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it’s inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It’s non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable.
Author Unknown

Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today,
because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
Author Unknown

Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.
Author Unknown

Nicholson Baker

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
Nicholson Baker

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
Nicholson Baker

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you’ve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
Nicholson Baker

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
Nicholson Baker

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
Nicholson Baker

Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Nicholson Baker

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
Nicholson Baker

Danger

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.
Enclish Proverb

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Corneille

Danger for danger’s sake is senseless.
Leigh Hunt

Venezuelan

A good friend will fit you like ring to finger.
Venezuelan Proverb

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.
Venezuelan Proverb

Thai

At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
Thai Proverb

Slovenian

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

Scandinavian

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

Puerto Rican

Break the leg of a bad habit.
Puerto Rican Proverb

Oriental

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb