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A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!
Sep 10, 2025
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.