One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
- Henry Beston
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.
- Jim Steinman
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
- Rachel Carson
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
- kentfrese Isaac Newton
The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
- James A. Lovell
[The shortage of student loans] may require... divestiture of certain sorts - stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.
- Jim Steinman
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
- Lenny Bruce
Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!'.
- Stephen Wright
(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important' because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation.
- Pat Robertson
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
- Philip Johnson
A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
- Dutch Proverb
Did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.
- Luther Cressman
Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses
- Michael Caine
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
- William Manchester
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- Newt Gingrich
Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
- G. K. Chesterton
Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come: And on the beach undid his corded bales.
- Matthew Arnold
This race between Dick Swett and Bob Smith is hot and tight as a too-small bathing suit on a too-long car ride back from the beach.
- Dan Rather
A shipwrecked sailor, landing on a lonely beach, observed a gallows.
- Jim Steinman
You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.
- Jim Steinman
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
No road is long with good company.
- Turkish Proverb
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
- Emily Dickinson
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
- Swedish Proverb
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Menclus
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
- Edith Wharton
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
- Sare and Cate
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
- Katherine Mansfield
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- William Penn
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
- Plautus
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some people go to priests, others to poetry; I to my friends.
- Virginia Woolf
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
- Dave Tyson Gentry
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
- Sicilian Proverb
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
- Douglas Pagels
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
- Eustache Deschamps
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
- Frances Ward Weller
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
- Lois Wyse
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
