It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~Epicurus
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 most. ~American Proverb
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake
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, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
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
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley MacLaine
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, L’Amitié est l’Amour sans Ailes
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 Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson
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
It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends. ~Euripides
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. ~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
’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin
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
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843
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
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ’less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. ~Sarah Orne Jewett
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 is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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 most. ~American Proverb
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake
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, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
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
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley MacLaine
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, L’Amitié est l’Amour sans Ailes
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 Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson
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
It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends. ~Euripides
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. ~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
’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin
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
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843
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
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ’less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. ~Sarah Orne Jewett
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 is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison
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
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
