Friendship Quotes

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Life is nothing without friendship.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

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

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

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.

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Friends are born, not made.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Newspapers should have no friends.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Opposition is true friendship.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children"ﾂ杯hey are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

He who hath many friends hath none.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do....

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Life without a friend is like death without a witness

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

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

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Friendship either finds or makes equals.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends

Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

True friends stab you in the front.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them.