The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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 curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
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