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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me read more
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.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. read more
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest read more
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more
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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
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.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
