Quotes on About Friendship

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.

Your friend is your needs answered.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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.

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.