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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sep 10, 2025
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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.
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.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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.
Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.