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The best
way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln |
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It's
the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.
Marlene Dietrich |
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What is
a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle |
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Oh the comfort, the
inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having
neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring
them all right out, just as they are--chaff and grain
together--certain that a faithful hand will take and sift
them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath
of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Mulock |
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True friendship
is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton |
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My mother
used to say that there are no strangers, only friends
you haven't met yet.
Dame Edna Everage |
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Real friends
are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't
feel that you've done a permanent job.
Erwin T. Randall |
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It is
easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend
the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence
of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi |
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Without
friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all
other goods.
Aristotle |
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One of the surest evidences
of friendship that one individual can display to another
is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel
it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude,
and amending the error.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
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Never
shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue
to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig Van Beethoven |
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We control
fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred
percent of it.
Barbara Colorose |
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Fate chooses
our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille |
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There
is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katherine Hathaway |
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If we
would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must
love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte |
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I like
a friend the better for having faults that one can talk
about.
William Hazlitt |
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Friendship
is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron |
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Life is
partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by
the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh |
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Friendship
is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand
the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington |
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Friends
may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones |
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A good
motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Frank Crane |
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Plant
a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman |
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Friendship
is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler |
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The real test of friendship
is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person?
Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are
utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at the end of life and number as their most sacred
experiences.
Eugene Kennedy |
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Friendship
is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn |
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The imaginary
friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends
thought I didn't exist.
Aaron Machado |
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A friend
is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings |
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Friends
are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good
you must one hundred try.
Claude Mermet |
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Old friends
pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days.
An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing
is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a
meaningful day.
Dalai Lama |
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Do not
protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech. Proverb |
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Friendship
is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company
without speaking a word to one another.
George Ebers |
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Nothing
is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Titus Maccius Plautus |
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An honest
answer is the sign of true friendship.
Proverbs 24:26 |
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Friends
are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
Samuel Paterson |
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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.
Charles R. Swindoll |
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In a friend
you find a second self.
Isabelle Norton |
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I do then
with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them
where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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No one
is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
Danish Proverb |
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I
would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker |
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Hold a
true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb |