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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Sep 10, 2025
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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.
Your friend is your needs answered.
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.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
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.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Friends make life a lot more fun.
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.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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.
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.
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.