Le sourire
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Il est un bon moyen de se créer une âme amicale : le sourire. … Le sourire large, net. …
Savoir sourire : quelle force ! Force d’apaisement, force de douceur, de calme, force de rayonnement.

Guy de Larigaudie – scout et écrivain français (1908-1940), de Étoile au grand large” (postum 1943)

Turn to
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Ò δέ καθήμενος μετὰ ἀδελφῶν, οὐκ ὀφείλει εἶναι τετραγωνιαῖος, ἀλλὰ στρογγύλος, ἵνα πρὸς πάντας κυλίηται.

wisdom of Abbas Matoe – early Christian monk, as quotet in “The Words of the Fathers” (“Apophthegmata Patrum”), a book about the first Christian monks in Egypt (3rd to 5th century)

Real friendship
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

attributed to Walter Winchell – American journalist (1897-1972), Quotations book 2019

Friend – Ships
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There are good ships, and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.

Irish saying – Quotations book 2018

Chocolate
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There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Proverb, seen at Linda Grayson – American entrepreneur (Printwick Papers), often falsely attributed to Charles Dickens

Watch children
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Watching children grow up is a great delight. You see in them your own faults and your wife’s virtues, and that can be a very stabilizing influence.

Sir Peter Ustinov – English actor and writer (1921-2004)

Openness
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi – Indian politician, 1966-77 and 1980-84 Prime Minister (1917-1984), Quotations book 2014

Together
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Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.

The Bible, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) – Quotations book 2016

Friendship
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Friendship is like a track on the sand, it vanishes if not consistently re-done.

from Kamerun

Partnership
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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

William H. “Bill” Gates – American Software entrepreneur, Microsoft (b. 1955)

Amicus
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Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

Quintus Ennius – Roman writer (239-169 B.C.), quoted by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman politician, 106-43 B.C.) in “Laelius de amicitia” (44 B.C.), Quotations book 2016

Friends
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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

Wisdom – Quotations book 2016

Friends
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If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)

Community
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Christians, like snowflakes, are fail,
but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

Dr. Vance Havner – American pastor and author (1901-1986)

Free of depts
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Neither a borrower or lender be,
for loan oft(en) loses both itself and friend,
and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare – English writer (1564-1616), in “Hamlet”, 1st act, Scene 3 “Polonius”(1603), Zitateheft 2012

Friendship
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Ὧν ἡ σοφία παρασκευάζεται εἰς τὴν τοῦ ὅλου βίου μακαριότητα, πολὺ μέγιστόν ἐστιν ἡ τῆς φιλίας κτῆσις.

Epicurus from Samos – Greek philosopher (341-270 B. C.); from “Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers” (Book ten, Epicurus) by Diogenes Laërtius (Greek historian and doxographer, 3rd century CE)

True friendship
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You only love your friend truly, when you love God in your friend, either because he is in him, or in order that he may be in him.

Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian theologian and philosopher, one of the four Latin Doctors of Church (354-430), Sermon 336,2

Sympathy
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Our record of persuading decent, intelligent people to stop doing dumb things is very poor. (Munger added, “Worse than poor.”) When people want to do something, they do it. When someone rises to be CEO, he doesn’t want to hear a shareholder telling him that his latest idea is dumb.

It’s better to be in a business with management you’re simpatico with than in a great business in which this isn’t the case.

We’ve learned more about human nature than understanding businesses in our long-term experience.

Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), at the general assembly 2001, Quotations book 2002

Integrity
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Integrity has no need for rules.

Albert Camus – Frech philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (1913-1960), from “The Myth of Sisyphos” (“Le mythe de Sisyphe”, 1942), Zitateheft 2009

Upbringing
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – English writer (1647-1680)

Wife
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God does not give you a wife to frustrate you but to complement you.

Howard G. Hendricks – American Professor at the Dallas Theological Seminary (1924-2013), Quotations book 2008

Happy life
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Happy wife – Happy life

American men’s wisdom

Family
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FAMILY = Father And Mother, I Love You

from the dictionary

Friendship
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival..

C. S. Lewis – British writer (1898-1963)

Networking
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Always look for a neighbour before you look for a house.

Wisdom – Quotations book 2007

Friend and enemy
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián y Morales – Spanish philosopher and writer (1601-1658), Quotations book 2006

People
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You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussing..

Plato – Greek philosopher (ca. 428-348 BC), Quotations book 2002

What matters
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One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much I had in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child.

Dr. Forest E. Witcraft – American Scholar and boy scout(1894-1967), from “Within My Power” (1950), Quotations book 2003