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Keep your friendships in repair, and then see if you do not find your horizon broadened, your life sweetened, and the weary weight of this sad old world lightened. ~Silas X. Floyd (1869–1923), "Keeping Friendship In Repair," Floyd's Flowers: or, Duty and Beauty for Colored Children, 1905 True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job. ~Erwin T. Randall, quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1955 I ask of life only that which makes it worth living: the love of friends. ~Justin Regier, January 2012 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author unknown A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, 1960 Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author unknown The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author unknown I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author unknown Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author unknown It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987 Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin 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. ~George MacDonald A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author unknown Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com A true friend is forever a friend. ~George MacDonald The function of a friend is not to have a function. ~Detlef Cordes The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992 It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard Friends are divided into two great classes: Those you need, and those who need you. ~Washington Star, quoted in For the Gaiety of Nations: Fun and Philosophy from the American Newspaper Humorists compiled by Wallace Rice, 1909 Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen 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 You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. ~American proverb The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake All you would have your friend to you, that must you be to him—and more; for there can be no thought of balancing of favors given by friend to friend; the obligations reach beyond; nor is there any selfishness, save selfishness for him. Full friendship is the selfishness and the unselfishness, at once, of two, bound into twinship fair of soul and spirit. Seek you then for friend one whom you understand down to the depths, up to the heights, of being, whose soul meets yours with the same understanding. Only so can you, can he, attain that sympathy which, growing with your intercourse, at last reaches beyond mere understanding, gains the other's thought and feeling, though no word be spoken, knows from the eyes of truth, and stands to aid in every project nobly true as ready as to speak against the false: Then may you say, "I have, he has, a friend!" ~Wallace Rice, To My Friend, 1914 The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Author unknown A healing friend is a kindred spirit who says "yeah, I know what you mean!" while pouring your cup of tea; sees your uniqueness; challenges you with love, humor, and honesty, to live your dreams; finds humor, song, dance, and magic hidden in your problems; delights in your surprises; accepts both ups & downs; helps you, then asks for help, too; encourages you to formulate your next steps, then goes the first step with you. ~Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987 [a little altered We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. ~George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, 2011 Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. ~L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. ~Tim Cahill What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Friendship is Love, without his wings. ~Lord Byron But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Maria Craik, A Life for a Life, "Chapter XVI: Her Story," 1859 A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn 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. ~Lois Wyse The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~Ethel Barrymore I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on. ~Anthony Liccione 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. ~Diana Cortes Just what is a friend; do you ask of me? I think it is one who will ever be Loyal and loving, what e'er may betide; One who will always stand close by our side With faith and trust and a fond, cheery smile Of understanding for us all the while; One who is ready to give us a hand As we struggle on through the shifting sands Of time: an honest, sincere friend is one Who will share our sorrows, our joys, our fun; And we know in him we can ever trust Till the time our bodies return to dust! ~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "A Friend" (1940s) If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author unknown A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should be. ~Author unknown The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E. W. Howe There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author unknown The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams. ~Henry David Thoreau If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends — you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.... ~Anaïs Nin Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~Khalil Gibran 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. ~Emil Ludwig Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~Samuel Pepys Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian proverb I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~Blaise Pascal If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ~Francesco Guicciardini The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjöld Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ~David Storey How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), translated by Norman Alliston, 1908 Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ~William Hazlitt It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. ~Somerset Maugham Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there. ~Author unknown In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton |
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