DURER'S PRAYING HANDS From childhood Albrecht Durer wanted to paint. Finally, he left home to study with a great artist. He met a friend who also had this same desire and the two became roommates.…
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CONQUER THROUGH FRIENDSHIP Abdel Kader led a holy war against the French in Algeria for 24 years. Captured in 1847, he was imprisoned in France then exiled to Turkey and later to Syria. There, in…
TOOLS OF FRIENDSHIP On the other hand, the Southern Methodist Bulletin relates the following account: "Our rider lawnmower had broken down and I had been working fruitlessly trying to get it back together. Suddenly, my…
WHEN FRIENDS COME True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. Theophrastus
PARSLEY PEOPLE A friend is one who gives attention to another. They go around offering hope and help wherever, whenever there is a need. One person has called these people "PARSLEY PEOPLE." They are always…
LINCOLN'S SOLITUDE In the oration he delivered at the unveiling of the stately memorial built around the lowly birthplace cabin of Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky, President Woodrow Wilson said: "I have read many biographies of…
WHERE OR WHY Someone has wisely said you can tell a real friend when you call him in the middle of the night from jail. If he asks, "Where?" he's your friend. If he asks…
HOW TO BE TREATED If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they…
CHOICE OF LIFE AND DEATH Someone has said, "I would rather be condemned to be led out and hung, if I knew one human soul would love me for a week beforehand and honor me…
THE CANDID FRIEND Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet, perhaps return his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me…
BE INTERESTED "You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just…
FRIENDSHIP MAINTENANCE Even Samuel Johnson, that most clubable of men, recognized that his friendships were constantly shifting. Hence his celebrated remark: "A man, Sir, must keep his friendships in constant repair. If a man does…
FRIEND OR BUDDY Recently, I read an interview with Tony Dorsett in a magazine insert in a local newspaper. In the article he says, "The best advice given me was from my dad who told…
REQUIRE WORK One should keep his friendships in constant repair. Samuel Johnson
QUEEN VICTORIA'S PRIME MINISTERS David Smith, author of The Friendless American Male, writes about Queen Victoria's impressions of her two most famous prime ministers. Of William Gladstone she said, "When I am with him, I…
BRIAN'S SONG When Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo, both running backs for the Chicago Bears, began rooming together in 1967, it was a first for race relations in professional football. It was also a first…
IRREPLACEABLE We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds that they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. Schiller
WHAT IS BEAUTY? I have a friend so young With handsome face and fair And there's an elegance About her golden hair. I have another friend Who's lost her youthful grace, For she's let hands…
PROUD TO STAND BY HIM The preacher urged his church When all his words were through, "Go stand by some aged friend Who's meant the most to you." They passed the rich and great As…
FRIENDSHIP AND FICKLENESS A girl gave her boyfriend her picture. On the back was this note: "Dearest Love: I love you more every day and I always will. I know you will feel the same…
