A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort
of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield A friend is a person with whom i may be sincere. Before him, i may
think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid
friendship.
Sallust
A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
Christi Mary Warner The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you
are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are
in the right.
Mark Twain It is one of the blessings of old friends that you
can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not believe that friends are necessarily the poeple you
like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Louise Beal
You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can
easily offend one in an hour.
Chinese proverb One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller It takes two to make a quarrel but only one to end it.
Spanish proverb The essence of friendship is not getting, but sharing.
Proverb Have patience with a friend rather than lose him forever.
Arab proverb You can make more friends in two months by
becoming more interested in other poeple than you can in two years
by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.
Swedish proverb On the road between the homes of friends, grass does not grow.
Norwegian proverb Think where man's
glory most begins
and ends
And say my glory
was i had such
friends.
William Butler Yeats You meet your friend, your face brightens- you have struck gold.
Kassia Show me a friend who will weep with me; those who will
laugh with me i can find myself.
Yugoslav proverb Flowers of true friendship never fade.
Proverb
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years,
yet never
really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Mary Catherwood The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake A true friend is the best possession.
Don't walk infront of me, i may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, i may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
If you have a friend worth loving,
Love him, Yes, and let him know
That you love him, ere life's evening
Tinge his brow with sunset glow,
Why should good words ne'er be said
Of a friend till he is dead?
Daniel W. Hoyt We ought not to isolate ourselves,
for we cannot remain in a state of isolation.
Social intercourse makes us the more able to bear
with ourselves and with others.
Goethe True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay
and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
Homer
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own
reputation for 'tis better to be alobe than in bad company.
George Washington
There is only one rule for being a good talker-
learn how to listen.
Christopher Morley
When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Never apologize for showing feeling.
When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
Robert Browning Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius The truest joys they seldom prove,
Who free from quarrels live;
'Tis the most tender part of love,
Each other to forgive.
John Sheffield Don't tell your friends their social faults;
they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.
A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel johnson Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Chilo When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him
by asking if there is any thing you can do, Think up something
appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine
out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin All who joy would win
Must share it,
Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Laurence Sterne
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
