Friends
"I still find each day too short for all that thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books want to read, and all the friends I want to see." --John Burrough
"No birth certificate is issued when a friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged without any effort on your part. It’’s like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you, but instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you." --Steve Tesich
"Friends aren’t jumper cables. You don’t throw them in the trunk and pull them out for emergencies." --Charlie Krueger
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else." --Len Wein
"A friend is a person:
Who will help you in the hour or sickness;
who will lend you a dollar without deducting the interest;
Who will help you uphill when you are sliding down;
Who will defend you in the hour when others speak ill of you;
Who will believe in your innocence until you admit your guilt;
Who will say behind your back what he says to your face;
Who will shake hands with you wherever he meets you, even though you wear patches; and
Who will do these things without expecting any return." --Dorothy C. Retsloff
"It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it’’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers." --Anon
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each others’’ worth." --Robert Southey
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." --David Tyson Gentry
"Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; don’’t walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend." --Albert Camus
"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer." --Anon
"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another." --Thomas Hughes
"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." --Henry Ward Beecher
"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you." --Elbert Hubbard
"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood. Overcome space, and all we have left is here. Overcome time, and all we have left is now. And in the middle of here and now, don’’t you think we might see each other once or twice?" --Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Relationships -- of all kinds -- are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." --Kaleel Jamison
"In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want." --Irish toast
"A common enemy does not a true friendship make." --Richard Stengel
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." --The Diary of Anaïïs Nin
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." --Walter Winchell
"Friendship is like money, easier made then kept." --Samuel Butler
"One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or intellect." --Mark Twain
"What is a friend? A single soul which dwells in two bodies." --Aristotle
"Never trust a friend who leaves you in a pinch." --Aesop
"My friends are few, but altogether sufficient." --Sir Winston Churchill
"Friendship is the union of spirits." --William Penn
"Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office of affairs and love." --William Shakespeare
"Life is nothing without friendship." --Cicero
"A friend is a present you give yourself." --Robert Louis Stevenson
"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 pluses." --Katherine Mansfield
"Do not keep the alabaster box of your love & friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go." --George William Childs
"Sometimes I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright, and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone... I guess I just miss my friend." -- Ellis Redding (Morgan Freeman) ,The Shawshank Redemption
