Quotes
Quotes about End
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soilâbut it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so oftenâjust to save it from drying out completely.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancyâthat it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
To find a friend one must close one eyeâto keep him, two.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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.
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.
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.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Friends are treasures.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
