Kata-kata bijak tentang pengharapan
Dan pengharapan tidak mengecewakan, karena kasih Allah telah dicurahkan di dalam hati kita oleh Roh Kudus yang telah dikaruniakan kepada kita. ~ Roma 5:5.
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ~ Rome 5:5
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Harapan, curang sebagaimana adanya, melayani sedikitnya untuk mengantar kita ke akhir [dari;ttg] hidup [kita/kami] oleh suatu rute dapat disetujui. ~ Francois Duc tidak La Rochefoucauld
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher
Sekali anda memilih harapan, semua akan jadi mungkin. ~ Christopher Reeve
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Harapan menjadi satu-satunya pendusta universal yang tidak pernah kehilangan reputasinya terhadap kejujuran. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus
Hal-hal yang kamu tidak harapkan terjadi lebih sering terjadi dibanding hal-hal yang kamu harapkan. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
Harapan adalah beberapa rahmat [yang] rohani luar biasa bahwa Tuhan memberi [kita/kami] untuk mengendalikan ketakutan [kita/kami], tidak untuk mengusir [mereka/nya]. ~ Vincent Mcnabb
Pada kenyataannya, harapan menjadi yang terburuk dari semua [kejahatan/ malapetaka], sebab [itu] memperpanjang manusia torments. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Manusia, Semua Juga Manusia, 1878
Ketika dunia kata[kan, " Menyerah,"
Harapan berbisik, " Coba ia/nya satu lagi waktu."
~ Pengarang Yang tak dikenal
Love floods us with hope. ~Jareb Teague
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott
cinta Banjir [kita/kami] dengan harapan. ~ Jareb Teague
Tidak ada apapun sangat baik mengenal sebagai bahwa kita mestinya tidak harapkan sesuatu (yang) sia-sia- tetapi kita semua lakukan dan [panggil/hubungi] ia/nya Harapan. ~ Edgar Howe
Harapan [dirinya] sendiri adalah suatu jenis kebahagiaan, dan, barangkali, kebahagiaan pemimpin dunia ini yang (mana) mampu; tetapi, seperti semua kesenangan lain [yang] secara tidak wajar menikmati, kelebihan harapan harus ditebus oleh sakit. ~ Samuel Johnson
Harapan adalah hal itu dengan bulu yang bertengger di (dalam) jiwa dan menyanyi lagu tanpa kata-kata dan tidak pernah stop... sama sekali. ~ Emily Dickinson
Harapan mulai di (dalam) yang gelap, harapan yang keras kepala bahwa jika kamu [hanya;baru saja] muncul dan mencoba ke lakukan [hak/ kebenaran] hal, dinihari akan datang. ~ Anne Lamott
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote
It's all one thing - both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson
Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~Ouida
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck
Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior
Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang
Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~Victor Hugo
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll
Senin, 11 Januari 2010
Kata-kata bijak tentang Iman
Kata-kata mutiara dan kata bijak tentang iman (Faith)
Sekiranya kamu mempunyai iman sebesar biji sesawi saja kamu dapat berkata kepada gunung ini: Pindah dari tempat ini ke sana, --maka gunung ini akan pindah, dan takkan ada yang mustahil bagimu. ~Matius 17:20
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne
Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster
Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey
Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth
To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes
A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo
Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown
Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward
Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg
Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown
Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding
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Label: Kata-kata Bijak, Kata-kata mutiara, Renungan tentang Iman
Minggu, 10 Januari 2010
Kata-kata bijak mengenai senyuman
Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara dan kata bijak mengenai senyuman. Tahukah Anda betapa penting dan berarti nya senyuman itu
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A smile confuses an approaching frown. ~Author Unknown
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ~Author Unknown
Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney
If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown
Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ~Author Unknown
Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown
Everyone smiles in the same language. ~Author Unknown
If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ~Raymond Chandler
Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
~Author Unknown
A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler
A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip
Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth. ~Author Unknown
The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown
If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown
I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. ~Jeb Dickerson,
Wear a smile - one size fits all. ~Author Unknown
No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ~Author Unknown
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade
A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman
Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Author Unknown
You're never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin
A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart
If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown
Smile - it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown
Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown
Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown
A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown
It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown
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Label: Kata-kata Bijak, Kata-kata mutiara
Sabtu, 09 Januari 2010
Kata-kata bijak tentang pengharapan
Kumpulan kata-kata mutiara & kata-kata bijak tentang pengharapan dalam bahasa inggris.
Dan pengharapan tidak mengecewakan, karena kasih Allah telah dicurahkan di dalam hati kita oleh Roh Kudus yang telah dikaruniakan kepada kita. ~ Roma 5:5.
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ~ Rome 5:5
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
Love floods us with hope. ~Jareb Teague
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley
You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~Author Unknown
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote
It's all one thing - both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson
Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~Ouida
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck
Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior
Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang
Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~Victor Hugo
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll
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Label: Kata-kata Bijak, Kata-kata Motivasi, Kata-kata mutiara, Kata-kata Penghiburan
My Child . . . .
My Child . . . .
* You may not know me, but I know everything about you... Psalm 139:1
* I know when you sit down and when you rise up... Psalm 139:2
* I am familiar with all your ways... Psalm 139:3
* Even the very hairs on your head are numbered... Matthew 10:29-31
* For you were made in my image... Genesis 1:27
* In me you live and move and have your being... Acts 17:28
* For you are my offspring... Acts 17:28
* I knew you even before you were conceived... Jeremiah 1:4-5
* I chose you when I planned creation... Ephesians 1:11-12
* You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book... Psalm 139:15-16
* I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live... Acts 17:26
* You are fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalm 139:14
* I knit you together in your mother's womb... Psalm 139:13
* And brought you forth on the day you were born... Psalm 71:6
* I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me... John 8:41-44
* I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love... 1 John 4:16
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Baca kelanjutannya disini
Click this link -> My Child . . . .
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Label: Kasih Bapa, Renungan untuk Pria, Renungan untuk Wanita
Showing posts with label KATA BIJAK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KATA BIJAK. Show all posts
Monday, June 14, 2010
Friendship Quotes
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out”.
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else”.
“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 friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself”.
" Seorang teman adalah satu [yang] percaya akan kamu ketika kamu sudah berhenti untuk percaya akan (diri) sendiri"
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend”.
“Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise”.
“A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway”. " Seorang Teman adalah seseorang [yang] mengetahui segalanya tentang kamu dan mencintai kamu bagaimanapun"
“Friendship is the only rose without thorns”.
“Friends are forever, you might lose them but you’ll never forget them”.
“Friendship is like a garden. It is beautiful when it is watered and
tended to with love and care of prayers, hugs, tears and cheers,
but it will be withered up if, dry up and die if left untouched”.
" Persahabatan seperti suatu kebun. Sungguh indah ketika adalah watered dan
yang cenderung untuk dengan cinta dan dengan alamat doa, pelukan, air mata dan sorak, tetapi akan jadi mematikan jika, mengeringkan dan mati jika meninggalkan tidak disentuh".
“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves.
Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others”.
“A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow”. " Seorang teman adalah satu [yang] mengetahui siapa kamu, memahami [di mana/jika] kamu telah, menerima apa yang kamu sudah menjadi, dan keheningan [yang] dengan lemah-lembut mengijinkan kamu untuk tumbuh".
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth”. " Tidak (ada) jarak kehilangan atau tempat waktu dapat mengurangi/ berkurang persahabatan [yang] dari mereka yang secara menyeluruh dibujuk dari tiap [yang] berharga lain".
“Though miles may lie between us, we’re never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count the miles, it’s measured by the heart”. " Meskipun [demikian] miles boleh terletak diantara [kita/kami], mereka tidak pernah jauh terpisah, untuk/karena persahabatan tidak menghitung miles, adalah di/terukur oleh [hati/jantung]".
“A true friend walks in when the whole world walks out”.
“A friend is someone who will always be there when everyone else fails”.
“Friends are like stars, you can’t always see them but you know that they’re there”.
“Friendship is not how long you’ve been together. It isn’t how much you’ve given or received; nor how many times you’ve helped each other, but it’s how you value one another”.
“If I could give you one thing I would wish for you,
the ability to see yourself as others see you, then you would realize what a truly special person you are”.
“The lamp of friendship always burn with the oil of love”.
“It is a fragile thread that binds us together, so handle it with care”.
“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes”.
“When the world gets dark, friends are the batteries in your flashlight”.
“A true friend can see the suffering in your eyes, while everyone else can just see the smile on your face”. Seorang sahabat sejati dapat melihat penderitaan di matamu, saat semua orang hanya dapat melihat senyuman di wajahmu.”
"Friends always show their love. What are brothers for if not to share troubles?"
Seorang sahabat menaruh kasih setiap waktu, dan menjadi seorang saudara dalam kesukaran. Proverbs 17:17
"Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers."
- Proverbs 18:24
"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure."
Sahabat lama jangan kautinggalkan; niscaya yang baru tidak sebanding dengannya. Sahabat baru serupa dengan air anggur yang baru, setelah menjadi tua dapat kauminum dengan senang hati
- Sirach 9:10
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."
- Proverbs 24:26
"A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder - watch out!"
Seorang kawan memukul dengan maksud baik, tetapi seorang lawan mencium secara berlimpah-limpah.
- Proverbs 27:6
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him."
- Emily Dickinson
"The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them."
- John 15:13
"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."
- sent by Chris
""A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure."
Sahabat setiawan merupakan perlindungan yang kokoh, barangsiapa menemukan orang serupa itu sungguh mendapat harta
Sirach 6:14
"Cherish your friend, keep faith in him"
- Sirach 27:17 ( sent by Melanie Eilers)
"Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time."
" Faithful friends are beyond price: No amount can balance their worth
- Bible ( Old Testament ) Sirach 6:15
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."
- Proverbs 27:19
NB: Brendan Johnston notes that this passage usually reads: "As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."
"A friend loveth at all times."
- Proverbs 17:17
"Does it make me a stranger that my best friend was born in a manger?"
-dcTalk's song 'Jesus Freak'
"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance."
-Proverbs 27:17 -Sent in by Frankie
"Friends in Christ are friends forever"
Orang yang takut akan Tuhan memelihara persahabatan dengan lurus hati, sebab seperti ia sendiri demikianpun temannya.
Sirach 6:17
-Sent in by Haley
"Friends are friends forever, if the Lord is the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never, cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands I know
That a lifetime's not too long... to live as friends."
-Michael W Smith - Sent in by Kellene
Sirach 6:14-17
6:14 Sahabat setiawan merupakan perlindungan yang kokoh, barangsiapa menemukan orang serupa itu sungguh mendapat harta.
6:15 Sahabat setiawan tiada ternilai, dan harganya tidak ada tertimbang.
6:16 Sahabat setiawan adalah obat kehidupan, orang yang takut akan Tuhan memperolehnya.
6:17 Orang yang takut akan Tuhan memelihara persahabatan dengan lurus hati, sebab seperti ia sendiri demikianpun temannya.
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, Forever, © Flavia.com
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
Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush...afraid that somebody might take you away from me.
Anonymous
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Apakah persahabatan itu? Sebuah jiwa yang tinggal dalam dua badan.
Aristotle
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. Tanamlah satu benih persahabatan dan rauplah satu buket kebahagiaan.
Lois L. Kaufman
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. Persahabatan mengalikan sukacita dan membagi duka cita kiat.
Swedish proverb
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech. Proverb
Abraham Lincoln: Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Albert Camus: Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Alice Walker: No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Anaïs Nin: Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Ann Richards: I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Anna Garlin Spencer: The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
Aristotle: What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Audre Lorde: The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Ben Jonson: True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
Bertrand Russell: A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Blaise Pascal: Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
C.S. Lewis: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."
Charlie Daniels: A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.
written en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Cicero: It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Confucius: Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Cornelia Otis Skinner: To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
The Ape in Me, 1959
David Hume: Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Deng Ming-Dao: Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Don Marquis: There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.
E. B. White: You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"
E.M. Forster: One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E.R. Bulwer-Lytton: It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Ecclesiasticus 6:14: A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Edgar Watson Howe: When 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Elie Wiesel: Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elizabeth Foley: The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
Emily Dickinson: Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen --
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs -- between --
Epicurus: It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
3rd century BCE
Francis David: We need not think alike to love alike.
Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
George Eliot: Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Santayana: Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Persons and Places: The Middle Span, 1945
George Santayana: The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
The Life of Reason, 1905-1906
George Washington: Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Gore Vidal: Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
H.H. the Dalai Lama: We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Henri Nouwen: When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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.
Henry David Thoreau: True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau: The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Henry Ward Beecher: It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Indira Gandhi: You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
It's a Wonderful Life: Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Jane Austen: Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Jane Austen: Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jessamyn West: Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Katherine Mansfield: I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
La Rochefoucauld: A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Louisa May Alcott: "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Marcel Proust: Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Margaret Guenther: We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
Mark Twain: The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain:
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain: Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Marlene Dietrich: It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, jr.: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
May Sarton: Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.
Maya Angelou: Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Mohandas K. Gandhi: It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Norman Douglas: To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Oscar Levant: I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Rabindranath Tagore: Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rachel Carson: If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Naomi Remen: The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, adapted: The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Robert Frost: When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don't stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven't hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Robert Louis Stevenson: We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson: We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert McAfee Brown: How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Rollo May: There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
Samuel Coleridge: Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Johnson: There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson: Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Sarah Orne Jewett: Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Seneca: Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Shel Silverstein: Friendship
I've discovered a way to stay friends forever --
There's really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!
Shusha Guppy: The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend."
Simone Weil: The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
Simone Weil: Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
Sir Francis Bacon: There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Sir Francis Bacon: We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Song of Solomon: This is my beloved and this is my friend.
Thomas Jefferson: But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Toni Morrison: I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
speech, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1978
Unknown: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Unknown: Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
W. Somerset Maugham: It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Warren G. Harding: Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
William Blake: The bird a nest
the spider a web
the human friendship.
William Blake: It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Zora Neale Hurston: It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it
“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.”
Jeanette Winterson quotes
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Brandi Snyder quotes
“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends .”
“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh”
A. A. Milne quotes (English Humorist, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1882-1956)
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
Winnie the Pooh quotes
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno (1950 - )
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
You don’t get to pick your own nickname. They’ve gotta give you one. It’s like we’re all tryin’ to make pets out of each other and we’re not comfortable unless we get to name ‘em.
Laura Moncur, Merriton, 03-26-08
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron
Friends have all things in common.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedrus
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi (1184 - 1291)
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Unknown, (often attributed to Albert Camus)
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Friends
A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift.
A friend is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace.
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.
- Jean Kyler McManus –
You are friendly, kind and caring
Sensitive, loyal and understanding
Humorous, fun, secure and true
Always there... yes that's you.
Special, accepting, exciting and wise
Truthful and helpful, with honest blue eyes
Confiding, forgiving, cheerful and bright
Yes that's you... not one bit of spite.
You're one of a kind, different from others
Generous, charming, but not one that smothers
Optimistic, thoughtful, happy and game
But not just another... in the long chain.
Appreciative, warm and precious like gold
Our friendship won't tarnish or ever grow old
You'll always be there, I know that is true
I'll always be here... always for you.
- Written and owned by Angela Lee Hillsley –
I believe in angels,
The kind that heaven sends,
I am surrounded by angels,
But I call them friends.
- Aizabel Parinas –
Standing by,
All the way.
Here to help you through your day.
Holding you up,
When you are weak,
Helping you find what it is you seek.
Catching your tears,
When you cry.
Pulling you through when the tide is high.
Just being there,
Through thick and thin,
All just to say, you are my friend.
- Brittani Kokko –
The Miracle Of Friendship
There is a miracle called Friendship
that dwells within the heart
and you don't know how it happens
or when it even starts.
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
and you realize that Friendship
is God's most precious gift.
- Jean Kyler McManus –
Friends will come and friends will go,
The seasons change and it will show,
I will age and so will you,
But our friendship stays, strong and true.
- Author Unknown –
A Friend's Greeting
I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.
I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;
I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.
I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;
I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.
I'm wishing at this time that I
could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;
And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.
- Edgar A Guest –
Friends
There's nothing as nice as someone who shares,
your laughter, your secrets, your wishes and cares,
someone who's there through your good times and tears,
who stays by your side as your friend through the years.
- Autymn Skillings
For Those Lost In 9/11
If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you,
And share with you its beauty
On the days you're feeling blue
If I could build a mountain
You could call your very own,
A place to find serenity,
A place to be alone
If I could take your troubles
I would toss them in the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me
I cannot build a mountain,
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend who's always there
- Author Unknown –
The Gift Of Knowing You
There are gifts of many treasures
For both the young and old,
From the tiniest little trinkets
To great boxes filled with gold.
But, put them all together
And they could not stand in lieu,
Of the greatest gift of all
The gift of knowing you.
When your times are filled with troubles
Sadness, grief, or even doubt,
When all those things you planned on
Just aren't turning out.
Just turn and look behind you
From the place at which you stand,
And look for me through the shadows
And reach out for my hand.
I will lift from you your burden
And cry for you your tears,
Bear the pain of all your sorrows
Though it may be for a thousand years.
For in the end I would be happy
To have helped you start anew,
It's a small price to pay
For the gift of knowing you.
- Dave Stout –
You remind me of a flower,
Pretty, inside and outside.
A reason why people smile everyday,
A gift to all.
You remind me of chocolate,
Luscious and sweet.
Someone people can turn to in crisis,
Loved by all.
You remind me of a teddy,
Cute and huggable.
Someone people feel comfortable with,
Special to all.
You remind me of a balloon,
Happy and bouncy.
Someone people can have fun with,
Enjoyed by all.
You remind me of a lot of things,
But nothing can compare to the real person,
A friend I can look up to,
Cherished by me.
- Jenny Yu –
Cherished Friends
God must have known there would be times
We'd need a word of cheer,
Someone to praise a triumph
Or brush away a tear.
He must have known we'd need to share
The joy of "little things"
In order to appreciate
The happiness life brings.
I think He knew our troubled hearts
Would sometimes throb with pain,
At trials and misfortunes,
Or goals we can't attain.
He knew we'd need the comfort
Of an understanding heart
To give us strength and courage
To make a fresh, new start.
He knew we'd need companionship,
Unselfish... lasting... true,
And so God answered the heart's great need
With cherished friends... like you!
- Author Unknown –
When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls, or riches,
but the love of real true friends.
- Helen Steiner Rice –
Among life's precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare.
- Author Unknown –
A Golden Chain
Friendship is a Golden Chain,
The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
It's treasured more each year...
It's clasped together firmly
With a love that's deep and true,
And it's rich with happy memories
and fond recollections, too...
Time can't destroy its beauty
For, as long as memory lives,
Years can't erase the pleasure
That the joy of friendship gives...
For friendship is a priceless gift
That can't be bought or sold,
But to have an understanding friend
Is worth far more than gold...
And the Golden Chain of Friendship
Is a strong and blessed tie
Binding kindred hearts together
As the years go passing by.
- Helen Steiner Rice –
Mukjizat Persahabatan
Ada sebuah keajaiban bernama PERSAHABATAN
Ia tinggal di dalam hati
dan kamu tidak mengetahui bagaimana itu terjadi
atau kapan Ia dimulai
Tetapi Ia akan selalu memberimu kebahagiaan
Mengangkatmu ke tempat terbaik
Hingga kamu menyadari
PERSAHABATAN adalah hadiah terbaik dari TUHAN
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else”.
“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 friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself”.
" Seorang teman adalah satu [yang] percaya akan kamu ketika kamu sudah berhenti untuk percaya akan (diri) sendiri"
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend”.
“Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise”.
“A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway”. " Seorang Teman adalah seseorang [yang] mengetahui segalanya tentang kamu dan mencintai kamu bagaimanapun"
“Friendship is the only rose without thorns”.
“Friends are forever, you might lose them but you’ll never forget them”.
“Friendship is like a garden. It is beautiful when it is watered and
tended to with love and care of prayers, hugs, tears and cheers,
but it will be withered up if, dry up and die if left untouched”.
" Persahabatan seperti suatu kebun. Sungguh indah ketika adalah watered dan
yang cenderung untuk dengan cinta dan dengan alamat doa, pelukan, air mata dan sorak, tetapi akan jadi mematikan jika, mengeringkan dan mati jika meninggalkan tidak disentuh".
“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves.
Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others”.
“A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow”. " Seorang teman adalah satu [yang] mengetahui siapa kamu, memahami [di mana/jika] kamu telah, menerima apa yang kamu sudah menjadi, dan keheningan [yang] dengan lemah-lembut mengijinkan kamu untuk tumbuh".
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth”. " Tidak (ada) jarak kehilangan atau tempat waktu dapat mengurangi/ berkurang persahabatan [yang] dari mereka yang secara menyeluruh dibujuk dari tiap [yang] berharga lain".
“Though miles may lie between us, we’re never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count the miles, it’s measured by the heart”. " Meskipun [demikian] miles boleh terletak diantara [kita/kami], mereka tidak pernah jauh terpisah, untuk/karena persahabatan tidak menghitung miles, adalah di/terukur oleh [hati/jantung]".
“A true friend walks in when the whole world walks out”.
“A friend is someone who will always be there when everyone else fails”.
“Friends are like stars, you can’t always see them but you know that they’re there”.
“Friendship is not how long you’ve been together. It isn’t how much you’ve given or received; nor how many times you’ve helped each other, but it’s how you value one another”.
“If I could give you one thing I would wish for you,
the ability to see yourself as others see you, then you would realize what a truly special person you are”.
“The lamp of friendship always burn with the oil of love”.
“It is a fragile thread that binds us together, so handle it with care”.
“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes”.
“When the world gets dark, friends are the batteries in your flashlight”.
“A true friend can see the suffering in your eyes, while everyone else can just see the smile on your face”. Seorang sahabat sejati dapat melihat penderitaan di matamu, saat semua orang hanya dapat melihat senyuman di wajahmu.”
"Friends always show their love. What are brothers for if not to share troubles?"
Seorang sahabat menaruh kasih setiap waktu, dan menjadi seorang saudara dalam kesukaran. Proverbs 17:17
"Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers."
- Proverbs 18:24
"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure."
Sahabat lama jangan kautinggalkan; niscaya yang baru tidak sebanding dengannya. Sahabat baru serupa dengan air anggur yang baru, setelah menjadi tua dapat kauminum dengan senang hati
- Sirach 9:10
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."
- Proverbs 24:26
"A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder - watch out!"
Seorang kawan memukul dengan maksud baik, tetapi seorang lawan mencium secara berlimpah-limpah.
- Proverbs 27:6
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him."
- Emily Dickinson
"The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them."
- John 15:13
"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."
- sent by Chris
""A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure."
Sahabat setiawan merupakan perlindungan yang kokoh, barangsiapa menemukan orang serupa itu sungguh mendapat harta
Sirach 6:14
"Cherish your friend, keep faith in him"
- Sirach 27:17 ( sent by Melanie Eilers)
"Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time."
" Faithful friends are beyond price: No amount can balance their worth
- Bible ( Old Testament ) Sirach 6:15
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."
- Proverbs 27:19
NB: Brendan Johnston notes that this passage usually reads: "As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."
"A friend loveth at all times."
- Proverbs 17:17
"Does it make me a stranger that my best friend was born in a manger?"
-dcTalk's song 'Jesus Freak'
"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance."
-Proverbs 27:17 -Sent in by Frankie
"Friends in Christ are friends forever"
Orang yang takut akan Tuhan memelihara persahabatan dengan lurus hati, sebab seperti ia sendiri demikianpun temannya.
Sirach 6:17
-Sent in by Haley
"Friends are friends forever, if the Lord is the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never, cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands I know
That a lifetime's not too long... to live as friends."
-Michael W Smith - Sent in by Kellene
Sirach 6:14-17
6:14 Sahabat setiawan merupakan perlindungan yang kokoh, barangsiapa menemukan orang serupa itu sungguh mendapat harta.
6:15 Sahabat setiawan tiada ternilai, dan harganya tidak ada tertimbang.
6:16 Sahabat setiawan adalah obat kehidupan, orang yang takut akan Tuhan memperolehnya.
6:17 Orang yang takut akan Tuhan memelihara persahabatan dengan lurus hati, sebab seperti ia sendiri demikianpun temannya.
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, Forever, © Flavia.com
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
Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush...afraid that somebody might take you away from me.
Anonymous
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Apakah persahabatan itu? Sebuah jiwa yang tinggal dalam dua badan.
Aristotle
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. Tanamlah satu benih persahabatan dan rauplah satu buket kebahagiaan.
Lois L. Kaufman
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. Persahabatan mengalikan sukacita dan membagi duka cita kiat.
Swedish proverb
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech. Proverb
Abraham Lincoln: Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Albert Camus: Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Alice Walker: No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Anaïs Nin: Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Ann Richards: I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Anna Garlin Spencer: The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
Aristotle: What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Audre Lorde: The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Ben Jonson: True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
Bertrand Russell: A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Blaise Pascal: Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
C.S. Lewis: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."
Charlie Daniels: A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.
written en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Cicero: It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Confucius: Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Cornelia Otis Skinner: To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
The Ape in Me, 1959
David Hume: Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Deng Ming-Dao: Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Don Marquis: There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.
E. B. White: You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"
E.M. Forster: One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E.R. Bulwer-Lytton: It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Ecclesiasticus 6:14: A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Edgar Watson Howe: When 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Elie Wiesel: Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elizabeth Foley: The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
Emily Dickinson: Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen --
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs -- between --
Epicurus: It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
3rd century BCE
Francis David: We need not think alike to love alike.
Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
George Eliot: Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Santayana: Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Persons and Places: The Middle Span, 1945
George Santayana: The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
The Life of Reason, 1905-1906
George Washington: Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Gore Vidal: Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
H.H. the Dalai Lama: We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Henri Nouwen: When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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.
Henry David Thoreau: True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau: The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Henry Ward Beecher: It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Indira Gandhi: You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
It's a Wonderful Life: Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Jane Austen: Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Jane Austen: Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jessamyn West: Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Katherine Mansfield: I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
La Rochefoucauld: A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Louisa May Alcott: "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Marcel Proust: Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Margaret Guenther: We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
Mark Twain: The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain:
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain: Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Marlene Dietrich: It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, jr.: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
May Sarton: Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.
Maya Angelou: Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Mohandas K. Gandhi: It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Norman Douglas: To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Oscar Levant: I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Rabindranath Tagore: Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rachel Carson: If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Naomi Remen: The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, adapted: The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Robert Frost: When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don't stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven't hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Robert Louis Stevenson: We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson: We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert McAfee Brown: How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Rollo May: There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
Samuel Coleridge: Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Johnson: There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson: Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Sarah Orne Jewett: Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Seneca: Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Shel Silverstein: Friendship
I've discovered a way to stay friends forever --
There's really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!
Shusha Guppy: The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend."
Simone Weil: The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
Simone Weil: Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
Sir Francis Bacon: There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Sir Francis Bacon: We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Song of Solomon: This is my beloved and this is my friend.
Thomas Jefferson: But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Toni Morrison: I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
speech, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1978
Unknown: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Unknown: Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
W. Somerset Maugham: It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Warren G. Harding: Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
William Blake: The bird a nest
the spider a web
the human friendship.
William Blake: It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Zora Neale Hurston: It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it
“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.”
Jeanette Winterson quotes
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Brandi Snyder quotes
“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends .”
“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh”
A. A. Milne quotes (English Humorist, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1882-1956)
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
Winnie the Pooh quotes
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno (1950 - )
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
You don’t get to pick your own nickname. They’ve gotta give you one. It’s like we’re all tryin’ to make pets out of each other and we’re not comfortable unless we get to name ‘em.
Laura Moncur, Merriton, 03-26-08
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron
Friends have all things in common.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedrus
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi (1184 - 1291)
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Unknown, (often attributed to Albert Camus)
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Friends
A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift.
A friend is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace.
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.
- Jean Kyler McManus –
You are friendly, kind and caring
Sensitive, loyal and understanding
Humorous, fun, secure and true
Always there... yes that's you.
Special, accepting, exciting and wise
Truthful and helpful, with honest blue eyes
Confiding, forgiving, cheerful and bright
Yes that's you... not one bit of spite.
You're one of a kind, different from others
Generous, charming, but not one that smothers
Optimistic, thoughtful, happy and game
But not just another... in the long chain.
Appreciative, warm and precious like gold
Our friendship won't tarnish or ever grow old
You'll always be there, I know that is true
I'll always be here... always for you.
- Written and owned by Angela Lee Hillsley –
I believe in angels,
The kind that heaven sends,
I am surrounded by angels,
But I call them friends.
- Aizabel Parinas –
Standing by,
All the way.
Here to help you through your day.
Holding you up,
When you are weak,
Helping you find what it is you seek.
Catching your tears,
When you cry.
Pulling you through when the tide is high.
Just being there,
Through thick and thin,
All just to say, you are my friend.
- Brittani Kokko –
The Miracle Of Friendship
There is a miracle called Friendship
that dwells within the heart
and you don't know how it happens
or when it even starts.
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
and you realize that Friendship
is God's most precious gift.
- Jean Kyler McManus –
Friends will come and friends will go,
The seasons change and it will show,
I will age and so will you,
But our friendship stays, strong and true.
- Author Unknown –
A Friend's Greeting
I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.
I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;
I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.
I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;
I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.
I'm wishing at this time that I
could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;
And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.
- Edgar A Guest –
Friends
There's nothing as nice as someone who shares,
your laughter, your secrets, your wishes and cares,
someone who's there through your good times and tears,
who stays by your side as your friend through the years.
- Autymn Skillings
For Those Lost In 9/11
If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you,
And share with you its beauty
On the days you're feeling blue
If I could build a mountain
You could call your very own,
A place to find serenity,
A place to be alone
If I could take your troubles
I would toss them in the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me
I cannot build a mountain,
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend who's always there
- Author Unknown –
The Gift Of Knowing You
There are gifts of many treasures
For both the young and old,
From the tiniest little trinkets
To great boxes filled with gold.
But, put them all together
And they could not stand in lieu,
Of the greatest gift of all
The gift of knowing you.
When your times are filled with troubles
Sadness, grief, or even doubt,
When all those things you planned on
Just aren't turning out.
Just turn and look behind you
From the place at which you stand,
And look for me through the shadows
And reach out for my hand.
I will lift from you your burden
And cry for you your tears,
Bear the pain of all your sorrows
Though it may be for a thousand years.
For in the end I would be happy
To have helped you start anew,
It's a small price to pay
For the gift of knowing you.
- Dave Stout –
You remind me of a flower,
Pretty, inside and outside.
A reason why people smile everyday,
A gift to all.
You remind me of chocolate,
Luscious and sweet.
Someone people can turn to in crisis,
Loved by all.
You remind me of a teddy,
Cute and huggable.
Someone people feel comfortable with,
Special to all.
You remind me of a balloon,
Happy and bouncy.
Someone people can have fun with,
Enjoyed by all.
You remind me of a lot of things,
But nothing can compare to the real person,
A friend I can look up to,
Cherished by me.
- Jenny Yu –
Cherished Friends
God must have known there would be times
We'd need a word of cheer,
Someone to praise a triumph
Or brush away a tear.
He must have known we'd need to share
The joy of "little things"
In order to appreciate
The happiness life brings.
I think He knew our troubled hearts
Would sometimes throb with pain,
At trials and misfortunes,
Or goals we can't attain.
He knew we'd need the comfort
Of an understanding heart
To give us strength and courage
To make a fresh, new start.
He knew we'd need companionship,
Unselfish... lasting... true,
And so God answered the heart's great need
With cherished friends... like you!
- Author Unknown –
When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls, or riches,
but the love of real true friends.
- Helen Steiner Rice –
Among life's precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare.
- Author Unknown –
A Golden Chain
Friendship is a Golden Chain,
The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
It's treasured more each year...
It's clasped together firmly
With a love that's deep and true,
And it's rich with happy memories
and fond recollections, too...
Time can't destroy its beauty
For, as long as memory lives,
Years can't erase the pleasure
That the joy of friendship gives...
For friendship is a priceless gift
That can't be bought or sold,
But to have an understanding friend
Is worth far more than gold...
And the Golden Chain of Friendship
Is a strong and blessed tie
Binding kindred hearts together
As the years go passing by.
- Helen Steiner Rice –
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Brithday Quotes
BRITHDAY QUOTES
Afrikaans : Veels geluk met jou verjaarsdag!
Albanian : Urime ditelindjen!
Alsatian : Gueter geburtsdaa!
Amharic : Melkam lidet!
Arabic : Eid milaad saeed! or Kul sana wa inta/i tayeb/a! (masculine/feminine)
Armenian :Taredartzet shnorhavor! or Tsenund shnorhavor!
Assyrian : Eida D'moladukh Hawee Brikha!
Austrian-Viennese : Ois guade winsch i dia zum Gbuadsdog!
Aymara (Bolivia) : Suma Urupnaya Cchuru Uromankja!
Azerbaijani : Ad gununuz mubarek! for people older than you Ad gunun mubarek! for people younger than you
Basque : Zorionak!
Belauan-Micronesian : Ungil el cherellem!
Bengali (Bangladesh/India) : Shuvo Jonmodin!
Bicol (Philippines) : Maogmang Pagkamundag!
Bislama (Vanuatu) : Hapi betde! or Yumi selebretem de blong bon blong yu!
Brazil : ParabŽns a voc?! ,
ParabŽns a voc?, nesta data querida muitas felicidades e muitos anos de vida.
Breton : Deiz-ha-bloaz laouen deoc'h!
Bulgarian : Chestit Rojden Den!
Cambodian : Som owie nek mein aryouk yrinyu!
Catalan : Per molts anys! or Bon aniversari! or Moltes Felicitats!
Chamorro : Biba Kumplianos!
Chinese-Cantonese : Sun Yat Fai Lok!
Chinese Fuzhou : San Ni Kuai Lo!
Chiness-Hakka : Sang Ngit Fai Lok!
Chinese-Mandarin : qu ni sheng er kuai le
Chinese-Shanghaiese : San ruit kua lok!
Chinese-Tiociu : Se Jit khuai lak!
Chronia Polla : NA ZHSHS
Croatian : Sretan Rodendan!
Czech : Vsechno nejlepsi k Tvym narozeninam!!
Danish : Tillykke med fodselsdagen!
Dutch-Antwerps : Ne gelukkege verjoardach!
Dutch-Bilzers : Ne geleukkege verjoardoag!
Dutch-Drents : Fellisiteert!
Dutch-Flemish : Gelukkige verjaardag! or Prettige verjaardag!
Dutch-Frisian : Fan herte lokwinske!
Dutch-Limburgs : Proficiat! or Perfisia!
Dutch-Spouwers : Ne geleukkege verjeurdoag!
Dutch-Twents : Gefeliciteard met oen'n verjoardag!
Dutch : Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! or Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!
English : Happy Birthday!
Esperanto : Felichan Naskightagon!
Estonian : Palju onne sunnipaevaks!
Euskera : Zorionak zure urtebetetze egunean!
Faroes ( Faroe island ) : Tillukku vid fodingardegnum!
Farsi : Tavalodet Mobarak!
Finnish : Hyvaa syntymapaivaa!
French (Canada) : Bonne Fete!
French : Joyeux Anniversaire!
Frisian : Lokkiche jierdei!
Gaelic (Irish) : L‡ breithe mhaith agat!
Gaelic (Scottish) : Co` latha breith sona dhuibh!
Galician (Spain) : Ledicia no teu cumpreanos!
Georgian : Gilotcav dabadebis dges!
German-Badisch : Allis Guedi zu dim Fescht!
German-Bavarian : Ois Guade zu Deim Geburdstog!
German-Berlinisch : Allet Jute ooch zum Jeburtstach! or Ick wuensch da allet Jute zum Jeburtstach!
German-Bernese : Es Muentschi zum Geburri!
German-Camelottisch : Ewllews Gewtew zewm Gewbewrtstewg. Mew!
German-Frankonian : Allmecht! Iich wuensch Dir aan guuadn Gebuardsdooch!
German-Lichtenstein : Haerzliche Glueckwuensche zum Geburtstag!
German-Moselfraenkisch : Haezzlische Glickwunsch zem Gebordsdach!
German-Plattdeutsch : Ick wuensch Di allns Gode ton Geburtsdach!
German-Rhoihessisch :Ich gratelier Dir aach zum Geburtstag!
German-Ruhr : Allet Gute zum Gebuatstach!
German-Saarlaendisch : Alles Gudde for dei Gebordsdaach!
German-Saechsisch : Herzlischen Gliggwunsch zum Geburdsdaach!
German-Schwaebisch : Aelles Guade zom Gebordzdag!
German-Wienerisch : Ois Guade zum Geburdsdog!
German : Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Greek : Eytyxismena Genethlia! or Chronia Pola!
Greenlandic : Inuuinni pilluarit!
Gronings (Netherlands): Fielsteerd mit joen verjoardag!
Gujarati (India) : Janma Divas Mubarak!
Gujrati (Pakistan) : Saal Mubarak!
Guarani (Paraguay Indian)] : Vy-Apave Nde Arambotyre!
Hawaiian : Hau`oli la hanau!
Hebrew : Yom Huledet Same'ach!
Hiligaynon (Philippines) : Masadya gid nga adlaw sa imo pagkatawo!
Hindi (India) : Janam Din ki badhai! or Janam Din ki shubkamnaayein!
Hungarian : Boldog szuletesnapot! or Isten eltessen!
Icelandic : Til hamingju med afmaelisdaginn!
Indonesian : Selamat Ulang Tahun!
Irish-gaelic : La-breithe mhaith agat! or Co` latha breith sona dhut! Or Breithla Shona Dhuit!
Italian : Buon Compleanno!
Italian (Piedmont) : Bun Cumpleani!
Italian (Romagna) :At faz tent avguri ad bon cumplean!
Japanese : Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu! Javaans-Indonesia : Slamet Ulang Taunmoe!
Jerriais : Bouon Anniversaithe!
Kannada (India) : Huttida Habba Subashayagalu!
Kapangpangan (Philippines) : Mayap a Kebaitan
Kashmiri (India) : Voharvod Mubarak Chuy!
Kazakh (Kazakstan) : Tughan kuninmen!
Klingon : Quchjaj qoSlIj!
Korean : Saeng il chuk ha ham ni da!
Kurdish : Rojbun a te piroz be!
Kyrgyz : Tulgan kunum menen!
Latin : Fortuna dies natalis!
Latvian : Daudz laimes dzimsanas diena!
Lithuanian : Sveikinu su gimtadieniu! or Geriausi linkejimaigimtadienio progal
Luganda : Nkwagaliza amazalibwa go amalungi!
Luxembourgeois : Vill Gleck fir daei Geburtsdaag!
Macedonian : Sreken roden den!
Malayalam (India) : Pirannal Aasamsakal! or Janmadinasamsakal!
Malaysian : Selamat Hari Jadi!
Maltese : Nifrahlek ghal gheluq sninek!
Maori : Kia huritau ki a koe!
Marathi(India) : Wadhdiwasachya Shubhechha!
Mauritian Kreol : mo swet u en bonlaniverser!
Mbula (Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea) : Leleng ambai pa mbeng ku taipet i!
Mongolian : Torson odriin mend hurgee!
Navajo : bil hoozho bi'dizhchi-neeji' 'aneilkaah!
Niederdeutsch (North Germany) : Ick gratuleer di scheun!
Nepali : Janma dhin ko Subha kamana!
Norwegian : Gratulerer med dagen!
Oriya (India) : Janmadina Abhinandan!
Papiamento (lower Dutch Antilles) : Masha Pabien I hopi aña mas!
Pashto (Afganistan) : Padayish rawaz day unbaraksha!
Persian : Tavalodet Mobarak!
Pinoy (Philippines) : Maligayang kaarawan sa iyo!
Polish : Wszystkiego Najlepszego! or Wszystkiego najlepszego zokazji urodzin! wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji urodzin
Portuguese (Brazil) : Parabens pelo seu aniversario! or Parabenspara voce! or Parabens e muitas felicidades!
Portuguese : Feliz Aniversario! or Parabens!
Punjabi (India) : Janam din diyan wadhayian!
Rajasthani (India) : Janam ghaanth ri badhai, khoob jeeyo!
Romanian : La Multi Ani!
Rosarino Basico (Argentina) : Feneligiz Cunumplegeanagonos!
Russian : S dniom razhdjenia! or Pazdravliayu s dniom razhdjenia!
Sami/Lappish : Lihkos Riegadanbeaivvis!
Samoan Manuia lou aso fanau!
Sanskrit (India) : Ravihi janmadinam aacharati!
Sardinian (Italy) : Achent'annos! Achent'annos!
Schwyzerduetsch (Swiss German) : Vill Glück zum Geburri!
Serbian : Srecan Rodjendan!
Slovak : Vsetko najlepsie k narodeninam!
Slovene : Vse najboljse za rojstni dan!
Sotho : Masego motsatsing la psalo!
Spanish : Feliz Cumplea–os!
Sri Lankan : Suba Upan dinayak vewa!
Sundanese : Wilujeng Tepang Taun!
Surinamese : Mi fresteri ju!
Swahili : Hongera! or Heri ya Siku kuu!
Swedish : Grattis pŒ fšdelsedagen
Syriac : Tahnyotho or brigo!
Tagalog (Philippines) : Maligayang Bati Sa Iyong Kaarawan!
Taiwanese : San leaz quiet lo!
Tamil (India) : Piranda naal vaazhthukkal!
Telugu (India) : Janmadina subha kankshalu!
Telugu : Puttina Roju Shubakanksalu!
Thai : Suk San Wan Keut!
Tibetan : Droonkher Tashi Delek!
Tulu(Karnataka - India) : Putudina dina saukhya!
Turkish : Dogum gunun kutlu olsun!
Ukrainian : Mnohiya lita! or Z dnem narodjennia!
Urdu (India) : Janam Din Mubarak
Urdu (Pakistan) : Saalgirah Mubarak!
Vietnamese : Chuc Mung Sinh Nhat!
Visayan (Philippines) : Malipayong adlaw nga natawhan!
Welsh : Penblwydd Hapus i Chi!
Xhosa (South Afican) : Imini emandi kuwe!
Yiddish : A Freilekhn Gebortstog!
Yoruba (Nigeria) : Eku Ojobi!
Zulu (South Afican) : Ilanga elimndandi kuwe!
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Author Unknown
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
~Author Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Favorite Birthday Quotes #1
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
Favorite Birthday Quotes #2
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
Favorite Birthday Quotes #3
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Dorothea Kent
Favorite Birthday Quotes #4
Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
Anonymous
Favorite Birthday Quotes #5
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Favorite Birthday Quotes #6
Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch
Favorite Birthday Quotes #7
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
Favorite Birthday Quotes #8
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake
Favorite Birthday Quotes #9
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
Favorite Birthday Quotes #10
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. -Frank Sinatra
It takes a long time to grow young. - Pablo Picasso
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny
Often times, I will include a unique birthday quote along with a birthday poem in a birthday card. I've noticed that the quote adds a little bit more value to the card.
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. - Plato
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many. - Plato
No wise man ever wished to be younger. -Jonathan Swift
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. -Robert Orben
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille ball
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -Paul H. Duhn
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind. - Alexander Pope
I really like that birthday quote by Alexander Pope. It always makes me think about how grateful I should be about life. Sometimes with my busy lifestyle and routines I forget how fortunate I am to be living such a beautiful life with precious family and friends. But birthday quotes like that one manage to remind me.
The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. - H. V. Prochnow
Now that is so true. I think it would go great along with a one of my romantic birthday poems in the birthday love poems section.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire
You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were your last. -Marcus Aurelius
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. -Anonymous
I think that one is hilarious.
Whatever with the past has gone,
The best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -George Santayana
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.( Masa muda adalah kebahagiaan karena ia mempunyai kemampuan untuk melihat kecantikan. Seseorang yang memelihara kemampuan untuk melihat kecantikan tidak pernah menjadi tua) -Franz Kafka
My heart is like a singing bird...
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me. -Christine Rossetti
I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few.
Aku ingin menjadi seorang seniman
Untuk melukis hanya untukmu,
Maka setiap ulang tahun dating,,
Aku dapat mengirimkan banyak untukmu. -Anonymous
There was a star danced, and under that was I born. - William Shakespeare
That birthday quote is short, but truly powerful.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. -Margaret Mead
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. -Virginia Woolf
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. -Sophie Tucker
I will definitely share that one with my mother when she turns fifty-five in a couple years. I am convinced we will all have a good laugh.
I must admit I really enjoy sharing funny birthday quotes. The one below is perfect for people who are always acting silly.
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. -Rudyard Kipling
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. -Pierre Cornielle
We are always the same age inside. -Gertrude Stein
I truly believe that quote. Inside I will always feel like I'm about 4. My 4 year old nephew Sebastian and 7 year old niece, Juliana can back me up on that one.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still. -William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. -Bob Hope
An old man loved is winter with flowers. -German proverb
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. -Ogden Nash
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder, but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. -William Makepeace Thackeray
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. -Anna Magnani
That one was super cute:)
Anonymous
Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
Steven Wright
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang, 'Happy Birthday.'
Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Father Larry Lorenzoni
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Robert Frost
Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Mary Schmich
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
George Burns
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
John Glenn
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
That ability to laugh at ourselves is a blessing indeed. Traditionally in our society, men "mature," while women "get old." But laughing about our age not only brings us joy and a shared sense of community with other women. It also gives us power. It tells the world, "Think what you will of me and my age. But I know who I am and I am just fine."
As the wonderful actress Ethel Barrymore once said:
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh
—at yourself.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have because the older she gets the more interested he becomes.
Agatha Christie
If things get better with age, then you're approaching magnificent.
Nicole Beale
You've logged so many miles in the voyage of life that you've been upgraded to First Class!
Evelyn Loeb
After 40 a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face and stay sitting down.
Dame Barbara Cartland
With the grace of God and a good lighting director, I plan to stick around for a good long time.
Barbara Walters
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy.
Goldie Hawn
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at 50.
Coco Chanel
'Isn't it fun getting older' is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
Katharine Hepburn
Nobody's "old" anymore—they've just been around for a long time.
Abigail Van Buren
The hardest years in life are those between 10 and 70.
Helen Hayes, at 83
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. Buck
Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.
Erma Bombeck
I feel like a million tonight—but one at a time.
Mae West
From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucker
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler
No one grows old by living—only by losing interest in living.
Marie Ray
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit. It helps to keep a woman young. It certainly keeps women alive.
Helena Rubinstein
I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.
Eva Gabor
When you're 20 and pretty, then you're rather like Switzerland—beautiful but dull.
Faye Dunaway
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men.
Colleen McCullough
I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
Gloria Swanson
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night.
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Can't Remember
I wish you something, just can't remember,
Don't be upset, you're my family member.
It was clearly, on my mind,
With so many thoughts, it's hard to find.
Maybe it's simply not that essential,
Please lose that frown, you have so much potential.
On second thought, it might be coming back to me,
Now I know, why those brain pills were free.
Visions appear of colorful balloons,
In the background, I hear those fine tunes.
Near the end of the dream, I can taste a delicious cake,
It must be your birthday, as I awake.
Aku berharap sesuatu untukmu, hanya tak bias mengingat,
Jangan mengganggu, kamu adalah anggota keluargaku.
Itu dengan jelas, dalam pikiran ku ,
Dengan sangat banyak pemikiran, adalah susah untuk mnemukan.
Barangkali adalah sederhananya bukan yang penting itu,
Tolong hilang[an kerut dahi itu, kamu mempunyai banyak potensi.
Pada [atas] pemikiran kembali, itu bisa sedang teringat kembali aku,
Sekarang aku mengetahui, mengapa pil otak itu bebas.
Visi nampak balon berwarna-warni/bersemangat,
Di (dalam) latar belakang, aku dengar lagu bagus itu.
Dekat akhir dari mimpi, aku dapat mencicipi suatu kue lezat,
[Itu] harus harilahir mu, [seperti/ketika] aku terjagaBy Martin Dejnicki
Birthday Appreciation
Each year your birthday reminds me
That I really want to say
I’m very glad I know you;
I think of you each day.
I hope you enjoy your birthday,
All the pleasures it has in store,
And because I appreciate you,
I hope you have many more!
Setiap ulang tahunmu mengingatkan aku
Bahwa aku benar-benar ingin mengatakan
Aku sangat bersyukur bias mengenalmu;
Setiap hari aku berpikir tentangmu.
Aku berharap kamu menikmati ulangtahunmu,
Semua kesenangan ada di dalam sebuah toko,
Dan sebab aku menghargai kamu,
Aku berharap kamu mendapatkan banyak lagi yang lain!
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Blessings
Instead of counting candles,
Or tallying the years,
Contemplate your blessings now,
As your birthday nears.
Consider special people
Who love you, and who care,
And others who’ve enriched your life
Just by being there.
Think about the memories
Passing years can never mar,
Experiences great and small
That have made you who you are.
Another year is a happy gift,
So cut your cake, and say,
"Instead of counting birthdays,
I count blessings every day!"
Daripada menghitung lilin,
Atau menghitung tahun umurmu,
Renungkan berkat mu sekarang,
Ketika hari ulang tahunmu mendekat.
Pertimbangkan orang-orang khusus
Yang mencintai kamu, dan yang mempedulikanmu,
Dan yang telah memperkaya hidupmu
Hadirlah di sana,
Ingatlah kenangan tentang mereka
Tahun yang telah lalu tak akan pernah merusak,
Pengalaman kecil dan besar.
Yang telah menciptakan siapa dirimu.
Tahun berikutnya adalah hadiah bahagia,
Jadi, potonglah kuemu dan katakanlah
" Sebagai ganti menghitung hari lahir,
Aku akan menghitung berkat tiap hari!"
By Joanna Fuchs
Happy Birthday, Special Treasure
God gave a gift to the world when you were born—
a person who loves, who cares,
who sees a person’s need and fills it,
who encourages and lifts people up,
who spends energy on others
rather than herself,
someone who touches each life she enters,
and makes a difference in the world,
because ripples of kindness flow outward
as each person you have touched, touches others.
Your birthday deserves to be a national holiday,
because you are a special treasure
for all that you’ve done.
May the love you have shown to others
return to you, multiplied.
I wish you the happiest of birthdays,
and many, many more,
so that others have time to appreciate you
as much as I do.
By Joanna Fuchs
Happy Birthday Poem
Once a year I get the chance
To wish you birthday cheer.
It pleases me no end to say,
I wish you another great year.
So happy birthday to you (name),
From the bottom of my heart.
And may your good times multiply,
Till they’re flying off the chart!
By Karl Fuchs
Bright Joy
On your birthday,
I’m thinking about how much light and sparkle
you freely dispense wherever you go,
how your sunny smile lights up any gathering.
Every birthday marks another year
of you radiating positive, happy energy,
contagious happiness
that infects all who come in contact with you.
May your next birthday find you the same--
glowing from within,
beaming bright joy on everyone you meet.
I feel blessed to know you.
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Wish
It’s your birthday time again;
It’s true; there’s no denying,
Another year has come and gone;
You know that I’m not lying.
So for you, the birthday person,
Here’s what I want to say:
I hope this birthday’s the best one yet,
In every delightful way.
So happy birthday to you.
Have lots of birthday fun!
May your birthday wishes all come true,
Even if you have a ton.
By Karl Fuchs
You Are A Gift
Some people give the gift
of peace and tranquility
to every life they touch.
They are always who they really are.
They are blessedly reliable,
dependably good,
predictably pleasant,
loved and treasured
by all who know them.
You are one of those people.
You are a gift
of peace and tranquility
in my life.
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Reflections
Your birthday's a time for careful reflection
About your life, and its future direction.
You see where you've been when you look at the past;
Most of it's great; you had quite a blast!
You wonder what's coming, what life has in store;
Will it be just the same? Will there be a new door?
Remember this, as you blow out the last candle:
Life holds no challenge that you cannot handle.
By Joanna Fuchs
Every Year On Your Birthday
Every year, on your birthday,
I think about how glad I am
that you were born,
how thankful I am
to have you in my life.
Every year is another year
filled with the special joys you bring
just by being yourself.
Every year, when you open your birthday gifts,
realize what a gift you are
to everyone who knows you,
especially me.
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Friend Birthday Poem
Birthday Wishes For My Friend
On your birthday,
I wish for you the fulfillment
of all your fondest dreams.
I hope that for every candle
on your cake
you get a wonderful surprise.
I wish for you that
whatever you want most in life,
it comes to you,
just the way you imagined it,
or better.
I hope you get as much pleasure
from our friendship as I do.
I wish we were sisters,
so I could have known you
from the beginning.
I look forward to
enjoying our friendship
for many more of your birthdays.
I'm so glad you were born,
because you brighten my life
and fill it with joy.
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Daughter Birthday Poem
For (Name), on Her Birthday
It's your birthday, but we got the gift...
a gentle, sweet, beautiful daughter
who is always a pleasure to be with.
You glow with sensitivity and compassion
generated from the depths
of your warm heart and and kind soul.
A loving mom, a peacemaker,
a woman full of the joy of life,
that's you.
Anyone who spends time with you
is privileged to know
such an extraordinary person.
You are a great joy in our lives.
We love you and cherish you and treasure you
and wish that every one of your birthdays
will be the happiest yet.
By Joanna Fuchs
Brother Birthday Poem
Birthday Poem For Brother
I'm fortunate, and I'm glad
I got you for my brother;
Even if I had the chance,
I wouldn't pick another.
I'm happy you're in my life;
You're my winner, come what may.
May your birthday wishes come true
On your very special day.
By Joanna Fuchs
Happily Ever After
On your birthday, special one,
I wish that all your dreams come true.
May your day be filled with joy,
Wonderful gifts and goodies, too.
On your day I wish for you
Favorite people to embrace,
Loving smiles and caring looks
That earthly gifts cannot replace.
I wish you fine and simple pleasures.
I wish you many years of laughter.
I wish you all of life’s best treasures.
I wish you happily ever after!
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Happiness
As we observe your birthday now,
Your cake and gifts don't matter much.
These common things aren't really you,
Ribbons, paper hats and such.
We celebrate a person who
Brings happiness to everyone,
Someone who gives more than she gets,
And fills our lives with joy and fun.
So Happy Birthday, and many more!
We hope you make it to a hundred and two,
Because we always want to have
The special pleasure of knowing you.
By Joanna Fuchs
Baby's First Birthday
It's your very first birthday, baby,
One candle on your cake;
Proud parents stare in wonder
At each new move you make.
We join in celebration,
As this special date arrives,
For baby has brought pleasure
Into all our lives.
We look forward now to seeing
How you progress and grow,
From the cute and tiny infant
You were one year ago.
So dig into your icing;
Enjoy your presents, too.
The reason for this day
Is a special person--you!
By Joanna Fuchs
50th Birthday Poem
The Big Five-Oh
So you are finally fifty;
Happy birthday on the big Five-Oh.
I guess you could fill a great big book
With everything you know.
A whole half century of living
Is nothing to sneeze about,
So if you're a little patched and worn,
Don't you dare frown or pout.
Ignore things that make you feel old;
It's really great to be fifty.
You're smart, attractive and good company,
And I still think you're nifty!
By Joanna Fuchs
When Your Birthday Rolls Around
Because you mean so much to me,
I celebrate your birth.
Sharing time and space with you,
Rings my bell for all it’s worth.
Whenever your birthday rolls around,
I contemplate once more,
How happy I am that you were born;
The thought makes my heart soar.
I wish your birthdays happened more,
So I could let you know,
How very much you mean to me,
And so I could tell you so!
Happy Celebration
Birthdays are happy events,
Times when dreams come true.
So dream a good dream (and let someone know!),
It just might work for you!
Have a happy celebration
One you’ll always recall,
And be aware on this day of days,
You’re the most special person of all!
By Karl Fuchs
Birthday Thanks
Another year has come and gone;
The sands of time keep trickling away.
Your birthday reminds me to let you know
I'm thankful for you each and every day.
By Karl Fuchs
I Celebrate You
On your birthday, I celebrate you!
On your special day,
I’m thinking of all the wonderful things you are
that bring so much joy to others, including me!
I celebrate your unconquerable spirit,
that lets you meet every challenge
with confidence, enthusiasm and persistence.
I admire your sensitivity.
You see needs that cry out to be met
that no one else sees,
and you meet them,
out of your deep and caring heart,
out of your wisdom,
out of your strength.
I treasure your uniqueness;
There is no one else like you,
and I feel blessed to know
such an extraordinary person.
I appreciate you, respect you,
cherish you, look up to you.
Happy, happy birthday!
May each new birthday
be the best one ever for you;
You deserve it!
By Joanna Fuchs
Happy Birthday, Old Friend
Congratulations to you, my old friend,
Birthday wishes to you, I send.
You look good for your age, I could say,
But you look good to me any day.
When I look in the mirror, I sigh,
'Cause I know the mirror doesn't lie.
You're aging like me, so you see
You're getting to be an old guy.
By Karl Fuchs
Would you like a book of our poems?
Best Birthday
It’s your birthday...
and I’m thinking how glad I am
that you were born.
You have given me so much--
supported me, encouraged me,
cared for me; I didn't even need to ask.
I celebrate your wonderful self!
I am in awe of your boundless generosity,
your infinite kindness--that gentle inner glow
that you so freely use to warm my life.
Your birthday is as much a celebration for me
as it is for you, maybe more,
and I wish for you the best of birthdays,
the best one ever.
May each birthday be better than the last.
Most of all, I hope you will always be
As happy as you have made me.
By Joanna Fuchs
Your Zoo
A birthday should always be a joyous occasion,
Family and friends; obvious invasion.
Duplicate gifts, you don’t even like,
If you complain, might get a strike.
One simple day, placed on display,
Carefully observed, for signs of decay.
Dishonest smiles, they don’t mingle in truth,
As if you were the only, losing your youth.
At such a wise age, everything seems so clear,
Excuse to celebrate, they all came for beer.
Deep down inside, you know that they care,
Your Zoo is unique, normal is rare.
Life’s Journey
It only happens once each year,
Book the train and pack your gear.
Your destination seems unknown,
As you sit there, all alone.
Something internal, in a rush,
Just like the toilet, we usually flush.
Constantly staring at the clock,
Are you waiting for your flock?
Savour the moment, don’t wait for the end,
Nobody knows, if you may extend.
Journey divided into equal parts,
Today is another, we’ll add to the charts.
Your train has left, from the town of birth,
Hopefully located, on planet earth.
The next stop, might seem the same,
It shall reveal, what you became.
Summer
Comes around just once each year,
Creates a stunning atmosphere.
A heated party, beginning till end,
The place to be is Disneyland.
Enjoyment and smiles, plentiful and ripe,
Abundant activities, deserving the hype.
Waters edges, they all seem to swarm,
Sandy days, with Sunny and Warm.
Summers birthday, they all wish to join,
She barbeques delicious sirloin.
Do not upset her, she’ll send in the rain,
Random weather cannot explain.
Ageless wonder, since birth we have known,
Temperature rising, statistics have shown.
Share your birthday with Summer our dear,
Through thoughtful actions protect our blue sphere.
Age and Laughter
Happy birthday, you’re not getting old,
Stay in the game, it’s not time to fold.
Wrinkles and grey hair, are just a new look,
Countless experiences, you should write in a book.
A birthday is seldom, a serious occasion,
Try not to take it, like the d-day invasion.
Laughter and jokes are within sight,
Stock up on both, all through the night.
Young at Heart
Happy birthday young at heart,
So many decades, where to start?
With energy, like that pink bunny,
You make us look lazy, that’s not funny!
Never-ending old school ways,
Filled with stories, to Amaze!
Listening has been lost with age,
You belong on theatre stage.
If you manage to forget,
We’ll remind you, don’t you fret.
Happy birthday young at heart,
Smile with joy, you old fart.
Elephant Frown
Today is your birthday, don’t pull your hair,
Look in the mirror, nature was fair.
Not a day over twenty,
I’m kidding! you’re plenty.
Don’t mean to burst your bubble,
But stop asking for trouble.
You know what I mean,
When you drink that caffeine.
What should I bring?
Just give me a ring.
Elephant or Clown?
I knew you would frown.
Kangaroo Birthday Fight
Birthday dream last night,
Kangaroo was in my sight,
Charged with all his might,
Unavoidable boxing fight.
Surprised me with his flight,
Reached, enormous height,
Smiled and revealed his bite,
This created all my fright.
Weakened muscles were too tight,
My chances were truly slight,
Internal resistance to incite,
Grasped, conclusion of polite.
Suddenly, to my true delight,
Victory! A birthday gift was in my sight,
Kangaroo began his flight,
To the rescue came the night.
Birthday Antique
You are antique,
We need to tweak,
Start with physique,
Let’s make you a geek,
Or just join a clique,
And become sleek,
What do you seek?
A birthday creek,
With sublime mystique,
Surely unique,
I shouldn’t speak,
Quite often critique,
Courageous or meek,
Today is your peak,
Enjoy the week,
And stick out your cheek!
If you’re looking for something that is short, but still generates laughter, than read this funny birthday poem. It’s only 4 lines in length. But it’s also one of my most popular.
Do you have friends that live off sarcasm or have edgy sense of humours? If you do I bet they will enjoy funny birthday poems like, "Careless Birthday".
Careless Birthday
I have known you quite a while,
When you talk, you make me smile.
A special friend, I will probably keep,
If you buy me, a cool jeep.
It’s your birthday, I nearly forgot,
Searched online, bought you squat.
Hope you don’t turn all bitter,
Since you’ve never been a quitter.
I nearly quit, writing this verse,
Mind is blank, it’s a curse.
Soon, your party will be here,
If I wake up, I’ll surely appear.
Childhood Games
On your Birthday, let’s play a game,
Your rolling eyes, perceive it as lame.
Remember when, you were a child,
Soiled playground days, exceptionally wild.
Dodgeball and horse,
Required some Force!
Unique jump-rope rhymes,
Oh, those were the times.
During Hide and Seek,
We knew you would peek.
When Simon would say to touch your nose,
He did mislead, and you learned to oppose.
Snakes and Ladders would never end,
Near the finish, always descend.
Spin the Bottle during early teens,
What was the brand of your ripped up jeans?
On your Birthday, let’s play a game,
I promise you, it might be lame.
Wishing you all the great things in life,
and we hope this birthday will bring you
an extra share of all that makes you happiest.
For all the wishes you make,
may every candle on your cake you get a wonderful surprise. Happy Birthday.
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday
is not to be reminded of it.
Wishing you happiness today and to remind you too,
you make the world a nicer place just by being you!
Don't despair about the number of candles on your cake.
The more candles, the bigger the wish you can make.
May the years continue to be good to you. Happy Birthday!
May all your birthday dreams and wishes come true.
On this Birthday may all the wishes and dreams you dream today turn to reality.
May you live as long as you want and
never want as long as you live.
Irish Blessing
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which,
ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never."
Soren Kierkegaard
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Mahummad Ali
Afrikaans : Veels geluk met jou verjaarsdag!
Albanian : Urime ditelindjen!
Alsatian : Gueter geburtsdaa!
Amharic : Melkam lidet!
Arabic : Eid milaad saeed! or Kul sana wa inta/i tayeb/a! (masculine/feminine)
Armenian :Taredartzet shnorhavor! or Tsenund shnorhavor!
Assyrian : Eida D'moladukh Hawee Brikha!
Austrian-Viennese : Ois guade winsch i dia zum Gbuadsdog!
Aymara (Bolivia) : Suma Urupnaya Cchuru Uromankja!
Azerbaijani : Ad gununuz mubarek! for people older than you Ad gunun mubarek! for people younger than you
Basque : Zorionak!
Belauan-Micronesian : Ungil el cherellem!
Bengali (Bangladesh/India) : Shuvo Jonmodin!
Bicol (Philippines) : Maogmang Pagkamundag!
Bislama (Vanuatu) : Hapi betde! or Yumi selebretem de blong bon blong yu!
Brazil : ParabŽns a voc?! ,
ParabŽns a voc?, nesta data querida muitas felicidades e muitos anos de vida.
Breton : Deiz-ha-bloaz laouen deoc'h!
Bulgarian : Chestit Rojden Den!
Cambodian : Som owie nek mein aryouk yrinyu!
Catalan : Per molts anys! or Bon aniversari! or Moltes Felicitats!
Chamorro : Biba Kumplianos!
Chinese-Cantonese : Sun Yat Fai Lok!
Chinese Fuzhou : San Ni Kuai Lo!
Chiness-Hakka : Sang Ngit Fai Lok!
Chinese-Mandarin : qu ni sheng er kuai le
Chinese-Shanghaiese : San ruit kua lok!
Chinese-Tiociu : Se Jit khuai lak!
Chronia Polla : NA ZHSHS
Croatian : Sretan Rodendan!
Czech : Vsechno nejlepsi k Tvym narozeninam!!
Danish : Tillykke med fodselsdagen!
Dutch-Antwerps : Ne gelukkege verjoardach!
Dutch-Bilzers : Ne geleukkege verjoardoag!
Dutch-Drents : Fellisiteert!
Dutch-Flemish : Gelukkige verjaardag! or Prettige verjaardag!
Dutch-Frisian : Fan herte lokwinske!
Dutch-Limburgs : Proficiat! or Perfisia!
Dutch-Spouwers : Ne geleukkege verjeurdoag!
Dutch-Twents : Gefeliciteard met oen'n verjoardag!
Dutch : Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! or Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!
English : Happy Birthday!
Esperanto : Felichan Naskightagon!
Estonian : Palju onne sunnipaevaks!
Euskera : Zorionak zure urtebetetze egunean!
Faroes ( Faroe island ) : Tillukku vid fodingardegnum!
Farsi : Tavalodet Mobarak!
Finnish : Hyvaa syntymapaivaa!
French (Canada) : Bonne Fete!
French : Joyeux Anniversaire!
Frisian : Lokkiche jierdei!
Gaelic (Irish) : L‡ breithe mhaith agat!
Gaelic (Scottish) : Co` latha breith sona dhuibh!
Galician (Spain) : Ledicia no teu cumpreanos!
Georgian : Gilotcav dabadebis dges!
German-Badisch : Allis Guedi zu dim Fescht!
German-Bavarian : Ois Guade zu Deim Geburdstog!
German-Berlinisch : Allet Jute ooch zum Jeburtstach! or Ick wuensch da allet Jute zum Jeburtstach!
German-Bernese : Es Muentschi zum Geburri!
German-Camelottisch : Ewllews Gewtew zewm Gewbewrtstewg. Mew!
German-Frankonian : Allmecht! Iich wuensch Dir aan guuadn Gebuardsdooch!
German-Lichtenstein : Haerzliche Glueckwuensche zum Geburtstag!
German-Moselfraenkisch : Haezzlische Glickwunsch zem Gebordsdach!
German-Plattdeutsch : Ick wuensch Di allns Gode ton Geburtsdach!
German-Rhoihessisch :Ich gratelier Dir aach zum Geburtstag!
German-Ruhr : Allet Gute zum Gebuatstach!
German-Saarlaendisch : Alles Gudde for dei Gebordsdaach!
German-Saechsisch : Herzlischen Gliggwunsch zum Geburdsdaach!
German-Schwaebisch : Aelles Guade zom Gebordzdag!
German-Wienerisch : Ois Guade zum Geburdsdog!
German : Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Greek : Eytyxismena Genethlia! or Chronia Pola!
Greenlandic : Inuuinni pilluarit!
Gronings (Netherlands): Fielsteerd mit joen verjoardag!
Gujarati (India) : Janma Divas Mubarak!
Gujrati (Pakistan) : Saal Mubarak!
Guarani (Paraguay Indian)] : Vy-Apave Nde Arambotyre!
Hawaiian : Hau`oli la hanau!
Hebrew : Yom Huledet Same'ach!
Hiligaynon (Philippines) : Masadya gid nga adlaw sa imo pagkatawo!
Hindi (India) : Janam Din ki badhai! or Janam Din ki shubkamnaayein!
Hungarian : Boldog szuletesnapot! or Isten eltessen!
Icelandic : Til hamingju med afmaelisdaginn!
Indonesian : Selamat Ulang Tahun!
Irish-gaelic : La-breithe mhaith agat! or Co` latha breith sona dhut! Or Breithla Shona Dhuit!
Italian : Buon Compleanno!
Italian (Piedmont) : Bun Cumpleani!
Italian (Romagna) :At faz tent avguri ad bon cumplean!
Japanese : Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu! Javaans-Indonesia : Slamet Ulang Taunmoe!
Jerriais : Bouon Anniversaithe!
Kannada (India) : Huttida Habba Subashayagalu!
Kapangpangan (Philippines) : Mayap a Kebaitan
Kashmiri (India) : Voharvod Mubarak Chuy!
Kazakh (Kazakstan) : Tughan kuninmen!
Klingon : Quchjaj qoSlIj!
Korean : Saeng il chuk ha ham ni da!
Kurdish : Rojbun a te piroz be!
Kyrgyz : Tulgan kunum menen!
Latin : Fortuna dies natalis!
Latvian : Daudz laimes dzimsanas diena!
Lithuanian : Sveikinu su gimtadieniu! or Geriausi linkejimaigimtadienio progal
Luganda : Nkwagaliza amazalibwa go amalungi!
Luxembourgeois : Vill Gleck fir daei Geburtsdaag!
Macedonian : Sreken roden den!
Malayalam (India) : Pirannal Aasamsakal! or Janmadinasamsakal!
Malaysian : Selamat Hari Jadi!
Maltese : Nifrahlek ghal gheluq sninek!
Maori : Kia huritau ki a koe!
Marathi(India) : Wadhdiwasachya Shubhechha!
Mauritian Kreol : mo swet u en bonlaniverser!
Mbula (Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea) : Leleng ambai pa mbeng ku taipet i!
Mongolian : Torson odriin mend hurgee!
Navajo : bil hoozho bi'dizhchi-neeji' 'aneilkaah!
Niederdeutsch (North Germany) : Ick gratuleer di scheun!
Nepali : Janma dhin ko Subha kamana!
Norwegian : Gratulerer med dagen!
Oriya (India) : Janmadina Abhinandan!
Papiamento (lower Dutch Antilles) : Masha Pabien I hopi aña mas!
Pashto (Afganistan) : Padayish rawaz day unbaraksha!
Persian : Tavalodet Mobarak!
Pinoy (Philippines) : Maligayang kaarawan sa iyo!
Polish : Wszystkiego Najlepszego! or Wszystkiego najlepszego zokazji urodzin! wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji urodzin
Portuguese (Brazil) : Parabens pelo seu aniversario! or Parabenspara voce! or Parabens e muitas felicidades!
Portuguese : Feliz Aniversario! or Parabens!
Punjabi (India) : Janam din diyan wadhayian!
Rajasthani (India) : Janam ghaanth ri badhai, khoob jeeyo!
Romanian : La Multi Ani!
Rosarino Basico (Argentina) : Feneligiz Cunumplegeanagonos!
Russian : S dniom razhdjenia! or Pazdravliayu s dniom razhdjenia!
Sami/Lappish : Lihkos Riegadanbeaivvis!
Samoan Manuia lou aso fanau!
Sanskrit (India) : Ravihi janmadinam aacharati!
Sardinian (Italy) : Achent'annos! Achent'annos!
Schwyzerduetsch (Swiss German) : Vill Glück zum Geburri!
Serbian : Srecan Rodjendan!
Slovak : Vsetko najlepsie k narodeninam!
Slovene : Vse najboljse za rojstni dan!
Sotho : Masego motsatsing la psalo!
Spanish : Feliz Cumplea–os!
Sri Lankan : Suba Upan dinayak vewa!
Sundanese : Wilujeng Tepang Taun!
Surinamese : Mi fresteri ju!
Swahili : Hongera! or Heri ya Siku kuu!
Swedish : Grattis pŒ fšdelsedagen
Syriac : Tahnyotho or brigo!
Tagalog (Philippines) : Maligayang Bati Sa Iyong Kaarawan!
Taiwanese : San leaz quiet lo!
Tamil (India) : Piranda naal vaazhthukkal!
Telugu (India) : Janmadina subha kankshalu!
Telugu : Puttina Roju Shubakanksalu!
Thai : Suk San Wan Keut!
Tibetan : Droonkher Tashi Delek!
Tulu(Karnataka - India) : Putudina dina saukhya!
Turkish : Dogum gunun kutlu olsun!
Ukrainian : Mnohiya lita! or Z dnem narodjennia!
Urdu (India) : Janam Din Mubarak
Urdu (Pakistan) : Saalgirah Mubarak!
Vietnamese : Chuc Mung Sinh Nhat!
Visayan (Philippines) : Malipayong adlaw nga natawhan!
Welsh : Penblwydd Hapus i Chi!
Xhosa (South Afican) : Imini emandi kuwe!
Yiddish : A Freilekhn Gebortstog!
Yoruba (Nigeria) : Eku Ojobi!
Zulu (South Afican) : Ilanga elimndandi kuwe!
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Author Unknown
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
~Author Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Favorite Birthday Quotes #1
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
Favorite Birthday Quotes #2
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
Favorite Birthday Quotes #3
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Dorothea Kent
Favorite Birthday Quotes #4
Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
Anonymous
Favorite Birthday Quotes #5
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Favorite Birthday Quotes #6
Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch
Favorite Birthday Quotes #7
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
Favorite Birthday Quotes #8
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake
Favorite Birthday Quotes #9
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
Favorite Birthday Quotes #10
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. -Frank Sinatra
It takes a long time to grow young. - Pablo Picasso
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny
Often times, I will include a unique birthday quote along with a birthday poem in a birthday card. I've noticed that the quote adds a little bit more value to the card.
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. - Plato
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many. - Plato
No wise man ever wished to be younger. -Jonathan Swift
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. -Robert Orben
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille ball
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -Paul H. Duhn
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind. - Alexander Pope
I really like that birthday quote by Alexander Pope. It always makes me think about how grateful I should be about life. Sometimes with my busy lifestyle and routines I forget how fortunate I am to be living such a beautiful life with precious family and friends. But birthday quotes like that one manage to remind me.
The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. - H. V. Prochnow
Now that is so true. I think it would go great along with a one of my romantic birthday poems in the birthday love poems section.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire
You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were your last. -Marcus Aurelius
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. -Anonymous
I think that one is hilarious.
Whatever with the past has gone,
The best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -George Santayana
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.( Masa muda adalah kebahagiaan karena ia mempunyai kemampuan untuk melihat kecantikan. Seseorang yang memelihara kemampuan untuk melihat kecantikan tidak pernah menjadi tua) -Franz Kafka
My heart is like a singing bird...
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me. -Christine Rossetti
I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few.
Aku ingin menjadi seorang seniman
Untuk melukis hanya untukmu,
Maka setiap ulang tahun dating,,
Aku dapat mengirimkan banyak untukmu. -Anonymous
There was a star danced, and under that was I born. - William Shakespeare
That birthday quote is short, but truly powerful.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. -Margaret Mead
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. -Virginia Woolf
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. -Sophie Tucker
I will definitely share that one with my mother when she turns fifty-five in a couple years. I am convinced we will all have a good laugh.
I must admit I really enjoy sharing funny birthday quotes. The one below is perfect for people who are always acting silly.
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. -Rudyard Kipling
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. -Pierre Cornielle
We are always the same age inside. -Gertrude Stein
I truly believe that quote. Inside I will always feel like I'm about 4. My 4 year old nephew Sebastian and 7 year old niece, Juliana can back me up on that one.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still. -William Shakespeare
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. -Bob Hope
An old man loved is winter with flowers. -German proverb
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. -Ogden Nash
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder, but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. -William Makepeace Thackeray
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. -Anna Magnani
That one was super cute:)
Anonymous
Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
Steven Wright
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang, 'Happy Birthday.'
Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Father Larry Lorenzoni
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Robert Frost
Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Mary Schmich
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
George Burns
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
John Glenn
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
That ability to laugh at ourselves is a blessing indeed. Traditionally in our society, men "mature," while women "get old." But laughing about our age not only brings us joy and a shared sense of community with other women. It also gives us power. It tells the world, "Think what you will of me and my age. But I know who I am and I am just fine."
As the wonderful actress Ethel Barrymore once said:
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh
—at yourself.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have because the older she gets the more interested he becomes.
Agatha Christie
If things get better with age, then you're approaching magnificent.
Nicole Beale
You've logged so many miles in the voyage of life that you've been upgraded to First Class!
Evelyn Loeb
After 40 a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face and stay sitting down.
Dame Barbara Cartland
With the grace of God and a good lighting director, I plan to stick around for a good long time.
Barbara Walters
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy.
Goldie Hawn
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at 50.
Coco Chanel
'Isn't it fun getting older' is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
Katharine Hepburn
Nobody's "old" anymore—they've just been around for a long time.
Abigail Van Buren
The hardest years in life are those between 10 and 70.
Helen Hayes, at 83
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. Buck
Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.
Erma Bombeck
I feel like a million tonight—but one at a time.
Mae West
From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucker
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler
No one grows old by living—only by losing interest in living.
Marie Ray
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit. It helps to keep a woman young. It certainly keeps women alive.
Helena Rubinstein
I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.
Eva Gabor
When you're 20 and pretty, then you're rather like Switzerland—beautiful but dull.
Faye Dunaway
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men.
Colleen McCullough
I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
Gloria Swanson
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night.
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Can't Remember
I wish you something, just can't remember,
Don't be upset, you're my family member.
It was clearly, on my mind,
With so many thoughts, it's hard to find.
Maybe it's simply not that essential,
Please lose that frown, you have so much potential.
On second thought, it might be coming back to me,
Now I know, why those brain pills were free.
Visions appear of colorful balloons,
In the background, I hear those fine tunes.
Near the end of the dream, I can taste a delicious cake,
It must be your birthday, as I awake.
Aku berharap sesuatu untukmu, hanya tak bias mengingat,
Jangan mengganggu, kamu adalah anggota keluargaku.
Itu dengan jelas, dalam pikiran ku ,
Dengan sangat banyak pemikiran, adalah susah untuk mnemukan.
Barangkali adalah sederhananya bukan yang penting itu,
Tolong hilang[an kerut dahi itu, kamu mempunyai banyak potensi.
Pada [atas] pemikiran kembali, itu bisa sedang teringat kembali aku,
Sekarang aku mengetahui, mengapa pil otak itu bebas.
Visi nampak balon berwarna-warni/bersemangat,
Di (dalam) latar belakang, aku dengar lagu bagus itu.
Dekat akhir dari mimpi, aku dapat mencicipi suatu kue lezat,
[Itu] harus harilahir mu, [seperti/ketika] aku terjagaBy Martin Dejnicki
Birthday Appreciation
Each year your birthday reminds me
That I really want to say
I’m very glad I know you;
I think of you each day.
I hope you enjoy your birthday,
All the pleasures it has in store,
And because I appreciate you,
I hope you have many more!
Setiap ulang tahunmu mengingatkan aku
Bahwa aku benar-benar ingin mengatakan
Aku sangat bersyukur bias mengenalmu;
Setiap hari aku berpikir tentangmu.
Aku berharap kamu menikmati ulangtahunmu,
Semua kesenangan ada di dalam sebuah toko,
Dan sebab aku menghargai kamu,
Aku berharap kamu mendapatkan banyak lagi yang lain!
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Blessings
Instead of counting candles,
Or tallying the years,
Contemplate your blessings now,
As your birthday nears.
Consider special people
Who love you, and who care,
And others who’ve enriched your life
Just by being there.
Think about the memories
Passing years can never mar,
Experiences great and small
That have made you who you are.
Another year is a happy gift,
So cut your cake, and say,
"Instead of counting birthdays,
I count blessings every day!"
Daripada menghitung lilin,
Atau menghitung tahun umurmu,
Renungkan berkat mu sekarang,
Ketika hari ulang tahunmu mendekat.
Pertimbangkan orang-orang khusus
Yang mencintai kamu, dan yang mempedulikanmu,
Dan yang telah memperkaya hidupmu
Hadirlah di sana,
Ingatlah kenangan tentang mereka
Tahun yang telah lalu tak akan pernah merusak,
Pengalaman kecil dan besar.
Yang telah menciptakan siapa dirimu.
Tahun berikutnya adalah hadiah bahagia,
Jadi, potonglah kuemu dan katakanlah
" Sebagai ganti menghitung hari lahir,
Aku akan menghitung berkat tiap hari!"
By Joanna Fuchs
Happy Birthday, Special Treasure
God gave a gift to the world when you were born—
a person who loves, who cares,
who sees a person’s need and fills it,
who encourages and lifts people up,
who spends energy on others
rather than herself,
someone who touches each life she enters,
and makes a difference in the world,
because ripples of kindness flow outward
as each person you have touched, touches others.
Your birthday deserves to be a national holiday,
because you are a special treasure
for all that you’ve done.
May the love you have shown to others
return to you, multiplied.
I wish you the happiest of birthdays,
and many, many more,
so that others have time to appreciate you
as much as I do.
By Joanna Fuchs
Happy Birthday Poem
Once a year I get the chance
To wish you birthday cheer.
It pleases me no end to say,
I wish you another great year.
So happy birthday to you (name),
From the bottom of my heart.
And may your good times multiply,
Till they’re flying off the chart!
By Karl Fuchs
Bright Joy
On your birthday,
I’m thinking about how much light and sparkle
you freely dispense wherever you go,
how your sunny smile lights up any gathering.
Every birthday marks another year
of you radiating positive, happy energy,
contagious happiness
that infects all who come in contact with you.
May your next birthday find you the same--
glowing from within,
beaming bright joy on everyone you meet.
I feel blessed to know you.
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Wish
It’s your birthday time again;
It’s true; there’s no denying,
Another year has come and gone;
You know that I’m not lying.
So for you, the birthday person,
Here’s what I want to say:
I hope this birthday’s the best one yet,
In every delightful way.
So happy birthday to you.
Have lots of birthday fun!
May your birthday wishes all come true,
Even if you have a ton.
By Karl Fuchs
You Are A Gift
Some people give the gift
of peace and tranquility
to every life they touch.
They are always who they really are.
They are blessedly reliable,
dependably good,
predictably pleasant,
loved and treasured
by all who know them.
You are one of those people.
You are a gift
of peace and tranquility
in my life.
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Reflections
Your birthday's a time for careful reflection
About your life, and its future direction.
You see where you've been when you look at the past;
Most of it's great; you had quite a blast!
You wonder what's coming, what life has in store;
Will it be just the same? Will there be a new door?
Remember this, as you blow out the last candle:
Life holds no challenge that you cannot handle.
By Joanna Fuchs
Every Year On Your Birthday
Every year, on your birthday,
I think about how glad I am
that you were born,
how thankful I am
to have you in my life.
Every year is another year
filled with the special joys you bring
just by being yourself.
Every year, when you open your birthday gifts,
realize what a gift you are
to everyone who knows you,
especially me.
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Friend Birthday Poem
Birthday Wishes For My Friend
On your birthday,
I wish for you the fulfillment
of all your fondest dreams.
I hope that for every candle
on your cake
you get a wonderful surprise.
I wish for you that
whatever you want most in life,
it comes to you,
just the way you imagined it,
or better.
I hope you get as much pleasure
from our friendship as I do.
I wish we were sisters,
so I could have known you
from the beginning.
I look forward to
enjoying our friendship
for many more of your birthdays.
I'm so glad you were born,
because you brighten my life
and fill it with joy.
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Daughter Birthday Poem
For (Name), on Her Birthday
It's your birthday, but we got the gift...
a gentle, sweet, beautiful daughter
who is always a pleasure to be with.
You glow with sensitivity and compassion
generated from the depths
of your warm heart and and kind soul.
A loving mom, a peacemaker,
a woman full of the joy of life,
that's you.
Anyone who spends time with you
is privileged to know
such an extraordinary person.
You are a great joy in our lives.
We love you and cherish you and treasure you
and wish that every one of your birthdays
will be the happiest yet.
By Joanna Fuchs
Brother Birthday Poem
Birthday Poem For Brother
I'm fortunate, and I'm glad
I got you for my brother;
Even if I had the chance,
I wouldn't pick another.
I'm happy you're in my life;
You're my winner, come what may.
May your birthday wishes come true
On your very special day.
By Joanna Fuchs
Happily Ever After
On your birthday, special one,
I wish that all your dreams come true.
May your day be filled with joy,
Wonderful gifts and goodies, too.
On your day I wish for you
Favorite people to embrace,
Loving smiles and caring looks
That earthly gifts cannot replace.
I wish you fine and simple pleasures.
I wish you many years of laughter.
I wish you all of life’s best treasures.
I wish you happily ever after!
Happy Birthday!
By Joanna Fuchs
Birthday Happiness
As we observe your birthday now,
Your cake and gifts don't matter much.
These common things aren't really you,
Ribbons, paper hats and such.
We celebrate a person who
Brings happiness to everyone,
Someone who gives more than she gets,
And fills our lives with joy and fun.
So Happy Birthday, and many more!
We hope you make it to a hundred and two,
Because we always want to have
The special pleasure of knowing you.
By Joanna Fuchs
Baby's First Birthday
It's your very first birthday, baby,
One candle on your cake;
Proud parents stare in wonder
At each new move you make.
We join in celebration,
As this special date arrives,
For baby has brought pleasure
Into all our lives.
We look forward now to seeing
How you progress and grow,
From the cute and tiny infant
You were one year ago.
So dig into your icing;
Enjoy your presents, too.
The reason for this day
Is a special person--you!
By Joanna Fuchs
50th Birthday Poem
The Big Five-Oh
So you are finally fifty;
Happy birthday on the big Five-Oh.
I guess you could fill a great big book
With everything you know.
A whole half century of living
Is nothing to sneeze about,
So if you're a little patched and worn,
Don't you dare frown or pout.
Ignore things that make you feel old;
It's really great to be fifty.
You're smart, attractive and good company,
And I still think you're nifty!
By Joanna Fuchs
When Your Birthday Rolls Around
Because you mean so much to me,
I celebrate your birth.
Sharing time and space with you,
Rings my bell for all it’s worth.
Whenever your birthday rolls around,
I contemplate once more,
How happy I am that you were born;
The thought makes my heart soar.
I wish your birthdays happened more,
So I could let you know,
How very much you mean to me,
And so I could tell you so!
Happy Celebration
Birthdays are happy events,
Times when dreams come true.
So dream a good dream (and let someone know!),
It just might work for you!
Have a happy celebration
One you’ll always recall,
And be aware on this day of days,
You’re the most special person of all!
By Karl Fuchs
Birthday Thanks
Another year has come and gone;
The sands of time keep trickling away.
Your birthday reminds me to let you know
I'm thankful for you each and every day.
By Karl Fuchs
I Celebrate You
On your birthday, I celebrate you!
On your special day,
I’m thinking of all the wonderful things you are
that bring so much joy to others, including me!
I celebrate your unconquerable spirit,
that lets you meet every challenge
with confidence, enthusiasm and persistence.
I admire your sensitivity.
You see needs that cry out to be met
that no one else sees,
and you meet them,
out of your deep and caring heart,
out of your wisdom,
out of your strength.
I treasure your uniqueness;
There is no one else like you,
and I feel blessed to know
such an extraordinary person.
I appreciate you, respect you,
cherish you, look up to you.
Happy, happy birthday!
May each new birthday
be the best one ever for you;
You deserve it!
By Joanna Fuchs
Happy Birthday, Old Friend
Congratulations to you, my old friend,
Birthday wishes to you, I send.
You look good for your age, I could say,
But you look good to me any day.
When I look in the mirror, I sigh,
'Cause I know the mirror doesn't lie.
You're aging like me, so you see
You're getting to be an old guy.
By Karl Fuchs
Would you like a book of our poems?
Best Birthday
It’s your birthday...
and I’m thinking how glad I am
that you were born.
You have given me so much--
supported me, encouraged me,
cared for me; I didn't even need to ask.
I celebrate your wonderful self!
I am in awe of your boundless generosity,
your infinite kindness--that gentle inner glow
that you so freely use to warm my life.
Your birthday is as much a celebration for me
as it is for you, maybe more,
and I wish for you the best of birthdays,
the best one ever.
May each birthday be better than the last.
Most of all, I hope you will always be
As happy as you have made me.
By Joanna Fuchs
Your Zoo
A birthday should always be a joyous occasion,
Family and friends; obvious invasion.
Duplicate gifts, you don’t even like,
If you complain, might get a strike.
One simple day, placed on display,
Carefully observed, for signs of decay.
Dishonest smiles, they don’t mingle in truth,
As if you were the only, losing your youth.
At such a wise age, everything seems so clear,
Excuse to celebrate, they all came for beer.
Deep down inside, you know that they care,
Your Zoo is unique, normal is rare.
Life’s Journey
It only happens once each year,
Book the train and pack your gear.
Your destination seems unknown,
As you sit there, all alone.
Something internal, in a rush,
Just like the toilet, we usually flush.
Constantly staring at the clock,
Are you waiting for your flock?
Savour the moment, don’t wait for the end,
Nobody knows, if you may extend.
Journey divided into equal parts,
Today is another, we’ll add to the charts.
Your train has left, from the town of birth,
Hopefully located, on planet earth.
The next stop, might seem the same,
It shall reveal, what you became.
Summer
Comes around just once each year,
Creates a stunning atmosphere.
A heated party, beginning till end,
The place to be is Disneyland.
Enjoyment and smiles, plentiful and ripe,
Abundant activities, deserving the hype.
Waters edges, they all seem to swarm,
Sandy days, with Sunny and Warm.
Summers birthday, they all wish to join,
She barbeques delicious sirloin.
Do not upset her, she’ll send in the rain,
Random weather cannot explain.
Ageless wonder, since birth we have known,
Temperature rising, statistics have shown.
Share your birthday with Summer our dear,
Through thoughtful actions protect our blue sphere.
Age and Laughter
Happy birthday, you’re not getting old,
Stay in the game, it’s not time to fold.
Wrinkles and grey hair, are just a new look,
Countless experiences, you should write in a book.
A birthday is seldom, a serious occasion,
Try not to take it, like the d-day invasion.
Laughter and jokes are within sight,
Stock up on both, all through the night.
Young at Heart
Happy birthday young at heart,
So many decades, where to start?
With energy, like that pink bunny,
You make us look lazy, that’s not funny!
Never-ending old school ways,
Filled with stories, to Amaze!
Listening has been lost with age,
You belong on theatre stage.
If you manage to forget,
We’ll remind you, don’t you fret.
Happy birthday young at heart,
Smile with joy, you old fart.
Elephant Frown
Today is your birthday, don’t pull your hair,
Look in the mirror, nature was fair.
Not a day over twenty,
I’m kidding! you’re plenty.
Don’t mean to burst your bubble,
But stop asking for trouble.
You know what I mean,
When you drink that caffeine.
What should I bring?
Just give me a ring.
Elephant or Clown?
I knew you would frown.
Kangaroo Birthday Fight
Birthday dream last night,
Kangaroo was in my sight,
Charged with all his might,
Unavoidable boxing fight.
Surprised me with his flight,
Reached, enormous height,
Smiled and revealed his bite,
This created all my fright.
Weakened muscles were too tight,
My chances were truly slight,
Internal resistance to incite,
Grasped, conclusion of polite.
Suddenly, to my true delight,
Victory! A birthday gift was in my sight,
Kangaroo began his flight,
To the rescue came the night.
Birthday Antique
You are antique,
We need to tweak,
Start with physique,
Let’s make you a geek,
Or just join a clique,
And become sleek,
What do you seek?
A birthday creek,
With sublime mystique,
Surely unique,
I shouldn’t speak,
Quite often critique,
Courageous or meek,
Today is your peak,
Enjoy the week,
And stick out your cheek!
If you’re looking for something that is short, but still generates laughter, than read this funny birthday poem. It’s only 4 lines in length. But it’s also one of my most popular.
Do you have friends that live off sarcasm or have edgy sense of humours? If you do I bet they will enjoy funny birthday poems like, "Careless Birthday".
Careless Birthday
I have known you quite a while,
When you talk, you make me smile.
A special friend, I will probably keep,
If you buy me, a cool jeep.
It’s your birthday, I nearly forgot,
Searched online, bought you squat.
Hope you don’t turn all bitter,
Since you’ve never been a quitter.
I nearly quit, writing this verse,
Mind is blank, it’s a curse.
Soon, your party will be here,
If I wake up, I’ll surely appear.
Childhood Games
On your Birthday, let’s play a game,
Your rolling eyes, perceive it as lame.
Remember when, you were a child,
Soiled playground days, exceptionally wild.
Dodgeball and horse,
Required some Force!
Unique jump-rope rhymes,
Oh, those were the times.
During Hide and Seek,
We knew you would peek.
When Simon would say to touch your nose,
He did mislead, and you learned to oppose.
Snakes and Ladders would never end,
Near the finish, always descend.
Spin the Bottle during early teens,
What was the brand of your ripped up jeans?
On your Birthday, let’s play a game,
I promise you, it might be lame.
Wishing you all the great things in life,
and we hope this birthday will bring you
an extra share of all that makes you happiest.
For all the wishes you make,
may every candle on your cake you get a wonderful surprise. Happy Birthday.
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday
is not to be reminded of it.
Wishing you happiness today and to remind you too,
you make the world a nicer place just by being you!
Don't despair about the number of candles on your cake.
The more candles, the bigger the wish you can make.
May the years continue to be good to you. Happy Birthday!
May all your birthday dreams and wishes come true.
On this Birthday may all the wishes and dreams you dream today turn to reality.
May you live as long as you want and
never want as long as you live.
Irish Blessing
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which,
ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never."
Soren Kierkegaard
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Mahummad Ali
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