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"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness." »Goethe
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"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." »Max L. Forman
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"Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet." »Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993
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"The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." »Samuel Butler
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"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." »David Ben-Gurion
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"You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul." »Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." »Arnold Toynbee
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"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table." »Jean Kerr
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"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." »Bertrand Russell
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"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation." »R Chamberlain
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"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding." »Agnes Repplier
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"On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory." »General Douglas MacArthur
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"Be cautious in your intercourse with the great; they seldom confer obligations on their inferiors but from interested motives. friendly they appear as long as it serves their turn, but they will render no assistance in time of actual need." »The Talmud
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead." »Charles M. Schwab
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"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil." »Plato
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