Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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.
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.
What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Best friends are people you know you don't need to talk to every single day. You don't even need to talk to each other for weeks, but when you do, it's like you never stopped talking.
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.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.
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