Quotes on Real Friends

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.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.