Quotes on My Friendship

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

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.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

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