Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.
A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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