Minggu, 15 Mei 2011

Friendship Quotes -> Part III

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

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

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

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

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

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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?

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Joseph Roux

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.
Edward W. Howe

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.
Henri Nouwen

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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.
Laurence J. Peter

 

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