Christmas Quotes

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.  

~Carol Nelson


He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.  

~Roy L. Smith

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.  

~Charles Dickens


Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.  

~W.J. Cameron


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

~Burton Hillis


One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.  Don't clean it up too quickly.

  ~Andy Rooney


Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!  

~Charles Dickens

 

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. 

~W.J. Cameron


'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
~Walter Scott


Christmas is a necessity.  There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.  

~Eric Sevareid


Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. 

~Laura Ingalls Wilder

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! 

~Author Unknown


I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.  

~Charles Dickens

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.  In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.  

~Larry Wilde

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. 

~Washington Irving

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. 

~Peg Bracken


Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.  

~Kate L. Bosher


At Christmas, all roads lead home. 

~Marjorie Holmes


Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish.  Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.  

~Francis C. Farley

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. 

~W.T. Ellis

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas.  Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.  

~W.J. Ronald Tucker


Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve.  Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.  

~Carrie Latet

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.  

~Richard Lamm

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!  

~Hamilton Wright Mabie


Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.  ~Author unknown

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks

 

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.  Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  ~G.K. Chesterton


Christmas is the day that holds all time together. 

~Alexander Smith


I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.  ~Harlan Miller


From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.  ~Katharine Whitehorn


Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon


A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
~Eva Logue

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.  

~Janice Maeditere

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. 

~Author Unknown


Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special!  How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?  

~Bill Watterson


Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.
~Alfred Noyes


For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.  

~Loring A. Schuler

This is the message of Christmas:  We are never alone. 

~Taylor Caldwell


Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights.  Happy Christmas to all.  

~Betsy Cañas Garmon

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
~Thomas Tusser


Christmas is for children.  But it is for grown-ups too.  Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. 

~Lenora Mattingly Weber


Sing hey!  Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!
~Author Unknown


To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

  ~E.B. White


Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  

~Author Unknown


I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.  ~May Sarton

It is the Christmas time:
And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb.
~Dinah Maria Mulock

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.  

~Leigh Hunt


The perfect Christmas tree?  All Christmas trees are perfect!  

~Charles N. Barnard


Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
~Richard Crashaw


I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill.  But it is clumsier every year. 

~E.M. Forster


At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...
~Edgar Guest

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.  

~Author Unknown


The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts.  Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.  

~Samuel Johnson


As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. 

~Eric Sevareid


When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.  

~Bob Hope

[I]t is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun."  Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis.  

~D.D. Monroe


Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
~Benny Hill


May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
~Author Unknown


Christmas!  The very word brings joy to our hearts.  No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.  

~Joan Winmill Brown


May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
~Ada V. Hendricks


The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.  

~Andy Rooney


What is Christmas?  It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.  It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.  

~Agnes M. Pahro


Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.
~William Robert Spencer


The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.

~John Andrew Holmes


If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?  ~Don Meredith


Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.  

~Author Unknown


I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. 

~Author Unknown


Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.  

~Robert Lynd


Mankind is a great, an immense family.  This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. 

~Pope John XXIII


I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!
~Carolyn Wells


'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!
~Carolyn Wells


There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.  

~Mildred Cram and Adele Comandini


There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime.  Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.  

~P.J. O'Rourke


Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.  To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. 

~Calvin Coolidge

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.

  ~Robert Kirby

Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~Vachel Lindsay


Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.  

~Deborah Whipp


When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. 

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.  

~Charles Dickens


At Christmas-tide the open hand
Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land,
And none are left to grieve alone,
For Love is heaven and claims its own.
~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.  ~Erma Bombeck


The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.  

~Joan Rivers


The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C.  This wasn't for any religious reasons.  They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. 

~Jay Leno


The earth has grown old with its burden of care,
But at Christmas it always is young....
~Phillips Brooks


Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.  

~Kin Hubbard


The worst gift is a fruitcake.  There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. 

~Johnny Carson


Let Christmas not become a thing
Merely of merchant's trafficking,
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamour, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze,
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer's martyrdom.
~Madeline Morse


Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.  

~Ralph Blane


It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. 

~Charles Dickens


Three phrases that sum up Christmas are:  Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.  

~Author Unknown

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. 

~Bernard Manning

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.  

~P.J. O'Rourke

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. 

~Kin Hubbard


Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. 

~Jessica Archmint

Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?
~Author Unknown


The universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful.  We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away.  Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life.  

~Author Unknown


We ring the bells and we raise the strain
We hang up garlands everywhere
And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
And feast and frolic - and then we go
Back to the same old lives again.
~Susan Coolidge


I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.  

~Dick Gregory

Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.  Just like the rest of the year.  ~Author Unknown


I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow...
~Irving Berlin


Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.  But it warmed more than your body.  It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.  

~Bess Streeter Aldrich

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.  

~Johnny Carson


Whatever else be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day, remembering
Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.
~Grace Noll Crowell

O Christmas Sun!  What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
~Guy Wetmore Carryl

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.   

~Margaret Thatcher


Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
~Christina Rossetti


Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance.  It may weave a spell of nostalgia.  Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.  

~Augusta E. Rundel


Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. 

~Dennis Miller

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses. 

~George William Curtis


'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, - not even a mouse:
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there....
~Clement Clarke Moore


People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.  

~Ogden Nash


Christmas gift suggestions:  To your enemy, forgiveness.  To an opponent, tolerance.  To a friend, your heart.  To a customer, service.  To all, charity.  To every child, a good example.  To yourself, respect.  

~Oren Arnold


Christmas in Bethlehem.  The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.  

~Lucinda Franks


Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
~Felicia Hemans



Which Christmas is the most vivid to me?  It's always the next Christmas. 

Motivational Quotes..

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton


If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire 

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein 

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

-Dick Werthimer

 

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.

-Dorothy Parker 

 

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

-Robert Heinlein 

 

Life is just a bowl of pits.

-Rodney Dangerfield

 

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

-Samuel Butler 

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

-Sir Winston Churchill

 

The unexamined life is not worth living.

-Socrates 

 

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

-Thornton Wilder

 

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

-Truman Capote 

 

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

-Wally 'Famous' Amos

 

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

-Ben Stein

 

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

-Brendan Gill

 

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

-Christopher Morley

Life is just one damned thing after another.

-Elbert Hubbard 

 

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

-Fran Lebowitz 

 

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

-Henry J. Tillman

 

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

-Isaac Asimov 

 

Life is a long lesson in humility.

-James M. Barrie 

 

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

-John Lennon 

 

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

-Kirby Larson

 

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

-Norman Thomas 

 

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

-Oscar Wilde 

 

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

-Peter De Vries

 

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

-R. D. Laing

 

Great One Liners.....

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

 

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.

According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist.

Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them..

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder..

Bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass..

Regular naps prevent old age.. especially if you take them while driving..

Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!

They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried- but they wanted cash.

Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.

You can't buy love. . But you pay heavily for it.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Don't confuse me with facts, my mind's already made up!

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

DON'T STEAL! - The government hates competition

Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.

Guests and fish start to stink after two days.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.

42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.

Couldn't afford to fix my brakes, so I made my horn louder.

Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting what to have for lunch.

What Famous Persons Say..

 

 

Inspirational Quotes....

“Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!”

“Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.”

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.” [read business fable]

“Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ... Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

“The world is full of people giving good advice to others, but I have thought we should all be better off if we would advise ourselves more, and others less. If I could take the good advice I am capable of giving, I should have no occasion to accept it from others.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.”

“You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”“We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.”

“Whenever you fall, pick up something.”

“Every step you take, is a step away from where you used to be.”

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

Quotes on Relationships..

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.  ~Margaret Mead


Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  ~Swedish Proverb


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough


There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859


If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?  ~Stephen Levine


Don't smother each other.  No one can grow in the shade.  ~Leo Buscaglia


Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
~Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects," 1954


Assumptions are the termites of relationships.  ~Henry Winkler


I like her because she smiles at me and means it.  ~Anonymous


Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.  ~Miles Franklin


In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.  ~Robert Brault,


You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.  ~Frederick Buechner


Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.  ~Anonymous


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."  ~A.A. Milne


I felt it shelter to speak to you.  ~Emily Dickinson


Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.  ~Dinah Shore


Lust is easy.  Love is hard.  Like is most important.  ~Carl Reiner
 
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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust


When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.  ~Robert Brault,


To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.  ~Doménico Cieri Estrada


Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Flavia Weedn, Forever

No road is long with good company.  ~Turkish Proverb


If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth.  And to my heart, you already are.  ~Anonymous


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


Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.  ~Author Unknown


There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.  ~Robert Brault


Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.  ~Author Unknown


People change and forget to tell each other.  ~Lillian Hellman


In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.  ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World


Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.  ~Mary Tyler Moore


Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke


You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.  ~Wayne W. Dyer


How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.  ~From the movie Annie

Friendship Quotes..

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. Glasgow


Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.  ~Author Unknown


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Author Unknown


Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.  ~Author Unknown


If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.  ~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit


There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.  ~Author Unknown


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.  ~Author Unknown


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  ~Author Unknown


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich


A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.  ~Attributed to Heather Pryor


What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  ~Aristotle


I like her because she smiles at me and means it.  ~Anonymous


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."  ~A.A. Milne


Hold a true friend with both your hands.  ~Nigerian Proverb


Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Flavia Weedn

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


A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.  ~Lois Wyse


A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.  ~Frances Ward Weller


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.  ~Author Unknown


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  ~Eustache Deschamps


You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.  ~Laurence J. Peter


A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.  ~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.  ~Henri Nouwen


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~Dave Tyson Gentry


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  ~Virginia Woolf


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau


She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.  ~Toni Morrison, Beloved


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.  ~George MacDonald


Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing


Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.  ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992


It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  ~John Leonard


The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  ~William Blake


A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.  ~William Penn


I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  ~Katherine Mansfield


We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton


Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.  ~Sare and Cate


The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.  ~Barbara Kingsolver


There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.  ~Edith Wharton


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


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.  ~Anäis Nin


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Menclus


In my friend, I find a second self.  ~Isabel Norton


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  Before him I may think aloud.  I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  ~Swedish Proverb


Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik


I felt it shelter to speak to you.  ~Emily Dickinson


No road is long with good company.  ~Turkish Proverb


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust

On the subject of quotes and proverbs.....

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne 

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - French Proverb

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de Montaigne

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - William R. Alger 

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.- William B. Sprague

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb 

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. - Unknown

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. - Joseph Joubert

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. - Samuel Smiles

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert 

Human success is a quotation from overhead. - Charles H. Parkhurst 

 

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle

A proverb is the child of experience. - Old Saying

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - Sir J. Mackintosh

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. - Tryon Edwards