A good friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathises with your troubles even when they're not so bad.
Good friends are like a fireplace., They warm your heart and show you a glimmer of beauty.
Plant the garden of your life with friendship's lovely flowers
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
How can people be so heartless?
How can people be so cruel?
Easy easy to be hard
Easy to be cold...
How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy easy to be hard
Easy to be cold...
Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice...
Do you only care about the needing crowd?
How about a needing friend?
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
If I could give you a gift, my friend, I'd give you the ability to see yourself as others see you, so you would know how very special you are.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Of all the gems on this earth, friends are the most precious.
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. Henry Ward Beecher
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. --Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend. - Bernard of Clairvaux, _Letters_
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Prov. 17:17
Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. Prov. 27:6
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel. Prov. 27:9
If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Eccl. 4:10
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.-- Arthur Brisbane, _The Book of Today_
To have had an intense antagonism with an honoured friend on a supreme issue, without losing either his friendship or comprehension, has in it some enduring elements of comfort as one looks back along the lengthening, fading track of life. -- -- Winston Churchill, "John Morley" _Great Contemporaries_, 1937
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.-- Frank A. Clark
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. -- Ed Cunningham
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
...were we to love none who had imperfections, this would be a desert for our love. All we can do is to make the best of our friends; love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two. -- Thomas Jefferson
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.~Alphonse de Lamartine
He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front. -- Leonard Louis Levinson
True friends don't spend time gazing into each other's eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other, but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord. C S Lewis
It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. -Mignon McLaughlin
"Friendship," said Pooh, "is a very Comforting sort of Thing."
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that this new world is born. Anais Nin
So long as you are secure, you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 BC-18 AD), _Tristia_
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends Plutarch
Could we see when and where we would meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. Ouida (Maria Louise [de la] Ramee) (1839 &endash; 1908)
There are many moments in friendship, as in love, when silence is beyond words. The faults of our friend may be clear to us, but it is well to seem to shut our eyes to them.... Friendship is usually treated by the majority of mankind as a tough and everlasting thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.--- Marie Louise De La Ramee
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. And that man who has known that immese unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.-- Joseph Roux, _Meditations of a Parish Priest_
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.---G. Randolph
If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. -Bertrand Russell
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. - Geroge Santayana
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.--William Shakespeare
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. --- Robert Southey.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.-- Robert Southey
True friendship is never serene. Marie de Svign
God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies. -Marshall de Villars
A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway. Christi Mary Warner
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.--- Len Wein
Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.... J. Gustav White
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. -- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.- Oscar Wilde
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