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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Sep 10, 2025
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.