Encouraging Seal

There is flattery in friendship. - William Shakespeare

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. - Kautilya

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. - Emo Philips

A mother is a daughter's first best friend. - Unknown

The wastebasket is the writer's best friend. - Isaac B Singer

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The friendship that can cease has never been real. - St. Jerome

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. - Irish Blessing

An intelligent enemy is better than an ignorant friend. - African Saying

A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. - Emile Gaboriau

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. - Joseph Addison

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate. - Ravi Zacharias

You meet your friend, your face brightens - you have struck gold. - Kassia

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. - Maya Angelou

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. - Aristotle

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

I am a great friend of public amusements; they keep people from vice. - Samuel Johnson

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Portuguese Proverb

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

My best friend ran away with my wife. And let me tell you, I really miss him. - Henny Youngman

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Joseph Joubert

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. - Unknown

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. - Michelle Obama

Our friend Chewy doesn't speak much, but he chews a lot of tobacco so we call him Chewbacco. - Michael Diack

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon. - John Geddes

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

Treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. - Dwight L Moody

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. - Arnold Bennett

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

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

If 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. - Edgar Watson Howe