FRIENDSHIP
"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
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with
someone you love, aren't you already there?
- Richard Bach
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle
All people want is someone to listen.
- Hugh Elliott
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.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring
you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- Madame de Tencin
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- John Churton Collins
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence
of their help.
- Epicurus
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- Saint Jerome
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a
chance to make them.
- Francesco Guicciardini
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends,
and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
- Rebecca West
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are
Turning Out Drawers.
- Pam Brown
Friends have all things in common.
- Plato
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. Robert Brault
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about
my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Confucius
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone
- but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship:
it is not worth embalming.
- William Hazlitt
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival
value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other
goods.
- Aristotle
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
--Dave Tyson Gentry
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly
smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that
comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is
willing to trust him with his friendship."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person,
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
--George Eliot
"Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness
when distant That proves a lasting friendship."
--Susan P. Schultz
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
-Henry Winkler
"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."
-Oprah Winfrey
"Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends..."
-Tom Waite
"You said my hands were warm and that I was special to you."
-Belinda Carlisle, Valentine
"...because
life isn't worth living if you can't be thoughtlessly kind."
-Kristin Thomas
"True friendship
is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"A real
friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"Friendship
is one mind in two bodies."
-Mencius
"A friend is
someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when
you have
forgotten
the words."
-unknown
"If
you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
-Stone Temple Pilots
"I'll
lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
-Dave Matthews
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere."
- Tim McGraw
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real
friends, then you've had a great life."
-Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-Nigerian Proverb
"When old friends
get together, everything else fades to insignificance."
-War, Famine,
Pestilence and Death
"A true friend
is one soul in two bodies"
-Aristotle