Sister/Friend Quotes

[WLFEO]

I was going through my old Mary Engelbreit calendars (4 years worth- I love her!) and found some good quotes on friendship. If the picture noted who said the quote, I indicated it. If not, I guess Mary Engelbreit said them... (Any typos are my fault completely- it's still early here!)

"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living." - Amanda Bradley

"Keep company with those who make you better." -English saying

"To me, fair friend, you can never be old, for as you were when first your eye I ey'd, such seems your beauty still."

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter." -Izaak Walton

"Friendship is love without his wings." -Lord Byron

"Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love." -Margaret Courtney

"All you need is a friend."

"Keep shining, my bright & shining star of a friend...."

"A friend is a second self." -Aristotle

"We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade."-Caroline Norton

"To a friend's house the road is never long."

"When we are grown we'll smile and say we had no care in childhood's day-But we'll be wrong, 'Twill not be true, I've this much care- I care for you."

"The gift of friendship is a wonderous thing with the joy and happiness good friends bring." -Anonymous

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thought unexpressed- that can make this life a garden." -Goethe

"My best friend brings out the best in me." -Henry Ford

"In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures." -Kahlil Gibran

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice." _Anonymous

"Ah! How good it feels, The hand of an old friend." Longfellow

"Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold- it can only be cherished." -Anonymous

"Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: whoever finds one has found a treasure." -Anonymous

"A friend, as it were, a second self." -Marcus T. Cicero

"Life has no blessing like a good friend."

"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words...hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friends know."

"Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow." -Simon Dach

"Hold a true friend with both hands." -Nigerian Proverb

"Friends are treasures." -Horace Bruns

"Friends are those who treat you kindly behind your back."

"Friendship needs no words..." -Dag Hammerskold

"Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree." -Coleridge

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." -John Evelyn

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to acquire." -Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

***Do you have any others? How can we use these in ADPi? Maybe on posters at chapter retreat... Maybe your pride culd write notes to the rest of the chapter using these quotes... Put one a week at the bottom of the meeting agenda... What else?

Have a great day!
L&L,
WLFEO

[honeychile]

Does every chapter have all the sisters write notes of congratulations to each of the New Initiates? We always did, and that's when we trotted out a lot of good quotes. One that I'll always remember is "A friend is a present you give yourself."

[ASUADPi]

Honeychile,
when I was initiated I did get notes of congratulations from all of the actives in the chapter. I wish I still knew where they were, I was young (18) and stupid so I probably accidently threw them away, but I did get them.

Brianna

[polarpi]

Originally posted by honeychile
Does every chapter have all the sisters write notes of congratulations to each of the New Initiates? We always did, and that's when we trotted out a lot of good quotes. One that I'll always remember is "A friend is a present you give yourself."

Our chapter had notes from the Lion, Violet, Pi and Diamond Sisters given to the new initiates on the days leading up to initiation (e.g. Violet sis would give her note on Black <> ceremony, Lion at Blue & White Day, Pi and Diamond sister on initiation day)

I think I like the idea of all the sisters writing notes of congratulations to all the new initiates, but in a large chapter, that would be A LOT of writing!

[honeychile]

Originally posted by polarpi

I think I like the idea of all the sisters writing notes of congratulations to all the new initiates, but in a large chapter, that would be A LOT of writing!

LOL - that's why I asked! You'd probably have to start a week before Initiation! Our New Member classes were between 8-15 and you started to say the same thing. I can't even imagine writing 90+ notes!!

But we're hijacking WLFEO's thread. This is from an older Alpha Delta Pi brochure:

"She's a cherished and precious possession
Who knows all of our hopes and our fears,
She's someone to treasure deep down in our heart
With a closeness that grows through the years."

[WLFEO]

Hey, hijack away!