To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden.
Life withougt a friend is death without a witness
Hold a true friend with both your hands
There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet.
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence.
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty.
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.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Friends are born, not made
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you.
You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Friends are born, not made
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help
Hold a true friend with both your hands
My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness ofone another.
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.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Balenciaga and Spain: A Docent lecutre
