Quotes on Heart Touching Friendship

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

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.

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

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 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.

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.