best friendship quotes for girls

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. ~Source Unknown



We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. ~John C. Maxwell



If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. ~Joey Adams



It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~Mahatma Gandhi



He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery. ~Emilio Castelar He liked companionship, but he wouldn't be petted, or fussed over, or sit in anyone's lap a moment; he always extricated himself from such familiarity with dignity and with no show of temper. If there was any petting to be done, however, he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented. ~Charles Dudley Warner



We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. ~From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X



Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? ~P.G. Wodehouse



Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524



To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire



Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~Chinese Proverb



If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without. ~Colette



He talked about Father Junipero Serra's qualifications for sainthood: they say he cured a nun's lupus. A miracle. Now I'm not a doctor, but I know lupus goes into remission. It's not always fatal. Have Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder play ping-pong together. That's a miracle. ~Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 February 1989



Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell



There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Journalism is organized gossip. ~Edward Egglestone



Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary. ~Author Unknown



Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Confucius, Analects



All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. ~Sidney Lumet



A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks, attributed