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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.


The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.


The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.


A good friend is cheaper than therapy.


If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.


But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.



The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.


A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.


If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.


If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.


You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.


Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.



A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.


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.


Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.


Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.



There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.


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.


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.


It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.


She is a friend of 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.


Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.


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.


A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.


Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.


Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?



Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.