![]() ![]() "Friends are born, not made." ![]() "Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends." ![]() "The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep." ![]() "No man is the whole of himself. His friends are the rest of him." ![]()
![]() "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." ![]()
![]() ![]() "The easiest kind of friendship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one." ![]() "This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." ![]() "A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person." ![]() "Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts." ![]() "Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." ![]() "My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether." ![]() "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friend for their sakes rather than for our own." ![]() "When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance." ![]()
![]() "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life." ![]() ![]() "People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'" ![]() "We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour." ![]() "Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed." ![]() "I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say that God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another." ![]() "Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed." ![]() "Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter." ![]() "Do not save your loving speeches ![]() ![]() "Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous." ![]() "Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends." ![]() "It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter." ![]() "There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart." ![]() ![]() "A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure." "Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand by thy counsellor." ![]() "It is one of the blessigns of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ![]() "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ![]() "Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo." ![]() "A friend is one before whome I can think aloud." ![]() "I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know." ![]()
![]() "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." ![]() ![]() "A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance." ![]() ![]() "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." ![]() "Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse, and I am not made of stone or iron, so I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need. I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me." ![]() ![]() "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." ![]()
![]() "Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them." ![]() "Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ![]() "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." ![]() "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." ![]() "My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing." ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() "The difference between men friends and women friends is that men tend to do things together, women tend to just be together." ![]() "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters." ![]() "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair." ![]() "The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne." ![]() "When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile." ![]() ![]() "It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means." ![]() "Friends are God's apology for relations." ![]() ![]() "Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, ![]() "I breathed a song into the air, ![]() "Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted." ![]() ![]() "Money can't buy friends but it can get you a better class of enemy." ![]() "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away." ![]() ![]() "Love demands infinitely less than friendship." ![]() "A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still." ![]() ![]() ![]() "Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you." ![]() "I was the kid next door's imaginary friend." ![]() "True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest." ![]() "The best mirror is an old friend." ![]() ![]() ![]() "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." ![]() ![]() "There is no hope of joy except in human relations." ![]() "One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." ![]() "We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship." ![]() "When true friends meet in adverse hour, ![]() "True friendship is never serene." ![]() "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, ![]() "No distance of place of lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." ![]()
![]() "A friend is a present you give yourself." ![]() "So long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." ![]() "A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months." ![]() "Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades." ![]() "A friendship that can end never really began." ![]() ![]() "If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?" ![]() "The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" ![]() "Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and the longitudes." ![]() "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." ![]() ![]() ![]() "It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected." ![]() ![]() "The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job." ![]()
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![]() "If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation." ![]() 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." ![]() "I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ~ Home ~ Movies ~ Songs ~ Anonymous ~ Women ~ |