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Friendship Quotes
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. 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. 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. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. A friend to all is a friend to none. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. 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. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. 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. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. 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. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. 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? Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. 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. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Friends are born, not made. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 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. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. It takes a long time to grow an old friend. 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. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. 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. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Friendship and money: oil and water. Friendship is one mind in two bodies. It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. True friends stab you in the front. 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. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. The only way to have a friend is to be one. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. 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. A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. 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. 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. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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