To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.
We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
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.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
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