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Mike Douglas
What fun to see everyone! I needed a lot more time to catch up with everyone's stories and what's been happening. But it was so worth coming in from the Lone Star State. I'm so excited I want to offer our house for the next reunion party. Next summer we'll two step, do 6th Street, go salsa dancing....OK, I'll wait for public comment on the idea. All Y'all look awesome, have great attitudes, and everyone seemed to have their chonies on. (Am I guessing or making that up. Not revealing my information sources.) Big improvement for some!! Thanks for all the fun. It's 1:00 a.m. here after the trip home, so I'm going to bed. Dios les bendiga a todos,
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
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.
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David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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.
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