Friendship

See also Love

• "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." -- Richard Bach
  • "Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah"

• "One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." -- Henry Brook Adams

• "Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing -- it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up." -- Bernard Cooke

• "Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace." -- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

• "Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to their misfortunes." -- Chilo

• A friend is one
  To whom one may pour out all
  The contents of one's heart
  Chaff and grain, together,
  Knowing that the gentlest of hands
  Will take and sift it,
  Keep what's worth
  And blow the rest away

• "My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are." -- Anonymous

• "The road to a friend's house is never long." -- Danish proverb

• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anaïs Nin

• "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." -- Len Wein

• "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

• "A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."

• "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." -- Bible: Ecclesiastes

• "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." -- Francois Mocuriac

• "It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter." - Marlene Dietrick

• "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." -- Henry Ford

• "Life without a friend is death without a witness" -- Eugene Benge

• "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." -- Oscar Wilde

• "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln
  • Notes: Attributed

• "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." -Henri Nouwen

• "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for." -Homer

• "Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his." -Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

• "True wealth can not be found in your bank account. It can only be found in those you call friend. Those with whom you share your deepest feelings. And those who accept you for who you really are." -Mary Vandergrift

• "'It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his." -Benjamin Franklin

• "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right..." Mark Twain

• "In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend." -Solon