Friendship
A
true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements. ~? (Unaccredited)
A
friend is one who has the same enemies you have. ~Abraham Lincoln
The
best mirror is a friend's eye. ~Gaelic Proverb
It
is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a
better thing to be beloved of many friends. ~Euripides
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
Who
seeks a friend without a fault remains without one. ~Turkish Proverb
I
don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod;
my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch
A
friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Alban
Goodier
Do
not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
~Anna Cummins
A
friend is a present you give yourself. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
...to
find a friend one must close one eye; to keep him, two. ~Norman Douglas
Anybody
can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very
fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. ~Oscar Wilde
Just
why should friends be chronological,
Fraternal friends, or pedagogical,
Alike in race or taste or color -
It only makes the meetings duller!
Unclassified by tribe or steeple,
Why shouldn't friends be merely people?
~Dorothy Brown Thompson
WITHOUT
A WORD, WITHOUT A SIGN
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of
yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you because you have done more than any
creed could have done to make me good,
and more than any fate could have done to make
me happy.
You have done it without a touch,
Without a word, without a sign.
You have done it by being yourself.
Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after
all.
~Anonymous
FRIENDS
ACROSS THE MILES
When good friends find themselves apart,
they still are close,
at least in the heart.
Because their friendship means so very much.
They think about each other still,
Because they care and always will.
That's why they need to stay in touch,
For truest friends can understand that
friendship really can't be planned.
It simply happens...when two people give.
It's built out of sharing, joy and smiles,
And crosses time and even miles...
A gift to cherish everyday you live.
~ Amanda Bradley
Cold
words will break a fine heart as winter's first frost does a crystal vase.
A false friend is like the shadow on a sundial which appears in very fine
weather but vanishes at the approach of a cloud.
~Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
Friendship
may, and often does, grow into love;
but love never subsides into friendship. ~Lord
Byron
The
most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately
without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
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. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
In
the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship,
but never in want. ~Irish toast
Could
we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when
we bid our friends good-bye. ~Ouida
The
best of friends must part. ~Traditional
God
defend me from my friends. ~Traditional
He
who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one
enemy will meet him everywhere. ~Ali ibn Abi Talib, 4th caliph (602-661)
Books
and friends should be few and good. ~Spanish proverb
Idem
velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
To like and dislike the same things, that is
indeed true friendship. ~Sallust (86-34 B.C.)
Do
not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech proverb
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. ~E.W. Howe, Country
Town Sayings
Si
tous les hommes scavoient ce qu'ils disent les uns des autres, il n'y auroit
pas quatre amys dans le monde.
If everyone knew what they all said about each
other, there would not be four friends left in the world. ~Blaise Pascal
(1623-1662),
Pensées
En
tais anankais khrēmatōn kreittōn philos.
It is better in times of need to have a friend
rather than money. ~Greek proverb.
It
is easier to visit friends than to live with them. ~Chinese proverb
None
is so rich as to throw away a friend. ~Turkish proverb
When
a friend washes another both become clean. ~Dutch proverb
Do
not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. ~Chinese proverb
A
friend is a poem. ~Persian proverb
