Friendship
is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure
words.
-- George Eliot
"A
friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A
friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"We
do not so much need the help of our friends as the
confidence of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)
"Friends
show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
"One
loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
A
quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new
tie to friendship.
-- St. Francis De Sales
"A
good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)
"My
friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as
your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas K.
Gandhi |
True
friendship comes when silence between two people is
comfortable.
--Dave Tyson Gentry
"Your
friend is your needs answered."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Let
there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening
of the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.
"Let
your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran
"In
the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter,
and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Friendship
multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)
"Friends
are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)
Friendship
reaches well above all currency.
-- Robert M. Hensel
"The
best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert
Don't
flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to
say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer
you come into relation with a person, the more necessary
do tact and courtesy become.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A
sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)
"Your
friend is the man who knows all about you, and still
likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Who
finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying
"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."
-- Samuel Johnson
The
friendship which is to be practised or expected by
common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure,
and must end when the power ceases of delighting each
other.
-- Samuel Johnson
