Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you read more
I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the read more
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any read more
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and read more
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a read more
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
