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But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed
Sep 10, 2025
We have a great friendship that I hope will last our entire lives.
I've had nothing but great friendship to help me through this.
Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.
The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.
The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287
To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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.
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.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.