Monday, January 19, 2009
Friends and Friendship- Who is friends, What is friendship
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. (Proverbs 17:17)
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. (Laurence J. Peter) (Taken from unknown source in net.)
Who is friends and what is meaning of friends
A lot of people go through life with only a few friends. It seems that some have less than that. They have no one on whom they can call in good times or bad. There is no one with whom to bounce ideas around, or to talk about deep and troubling subjects. They have no one to call in times of need or difficulty. They are at the mercy of life, standing alone.
Others seem to have a multiple number of friends like google's PageRank which increases in cumulative. Wherever they go, people know them, and like to be around them. when a trouble strike, their biggest hesitation might be over which friend to call. They know exactly the person with whom to discuss the topics of inquiry and debate. Life is full of entertaining and invigorating relationships because it is full of friends. These friends will be like a Degree course in friendship.. When we study them we get lot of knowledge about friendship. They have a lot of ideas flowing and they discuss any topic which is hard to discuss.
Of course, some people are perfectly happy to operate with fewer friends. They might rather have a few deep and loyal friends, than many superficial ones. Others thrive best when friends are everywhere and numerous. It is not so much the number of friends that is important as is the possession of friends, period. Loyal and deep friendship is good. It doesn't care about the numbers, Even if you have one loyal trustable friend. it is better than to have hundreds of untrustable, superficial friends. With the trusted friends we can discuss our problem areas and get ideas for solving them also. These friends share their time with us to solve problems. But when you have lots of friends who are not loyal or trustable it is the case of the person who is not having any friends. Even after having hundreds of friends our mind can't able to find real, trustable friends.
Friendship is a blessing...
Friendship is a blessing, and a friend is the channel through whom great emotional, spiritual, and sometimes even physical blessings flow. Friends will cheer us when we’re sorrowful or depressed. Friends will challenge us to attain our orginal limits with encouragement when we allow ourselves not to go beyond our reasonable boundaries. Friends will motivate us when we’re ready to give in, and they can provide for us when life falls apart. Friends are there when all is well, and we want someone with whom to share life’s pleasant and memorable moments. We often just want them around, to have a good time, to laugh, to act silly, to enjoy some mutually liked activity. In how many ways have friends enriched our lives and made us feel loved, accepted, respected and cared for? Probably, too many to list, and the list grows daily.
When you act silly with friends around they also comes and join you and get the enjoyment that you are getting. In the dictionary of friendship there is no word named sorrow. Friends will enter into that word and friends break the word into peices. They motivate us to attain our goal. They will stand by our side when you need a support. you will tell about a girl/guy whom you love and will ask for help for the love. You can't tell the same to parents or any other before the love starts. In our life deciding factor also there is a friend and his/her friendship is helping you. When you get problem in that love all others will run from u but not your bet friend. They help us by challenging( a challenge which motivates us) and also motivates us for reaching our aim.
When you are in college or studies you ask doubts in the subjects not to the professor but to a friend. Friends never says no to anything. They will try to help us and try to solve the doubts. When you play a friend is the first person to cheer you when you do a record. Friends will be the first to treat us without any jealous mind. friends consider the record of yours as theirs and they feel happy by telling about the record to others. In life we share most of the time with friends. We can't share some topics with our parents but we can share any topic, with friends. friends research that topic as a judge and tell us the good's and bad's
Friendship is everlasting...
Friendship is only everlasting feature in this world. There may be biggest miracle which can change the entire world but even in that miracle also friendship will come out from its sleep. Friendship is like a banyan tree. Banyan tree seed is very small, but when it comes out of earth nothing can stop its growth. The same applies to friendship also. Friendship will reside in our heart like the banyan tree seed. When it finds the correct soil in another heart it starts its growth. at one stage when you get more friendly with that person it will become tree after that nothing in this world can stop it. Friends will try to find new ways to make you not to fall. Friends may not save but they never let you go to deep. Friends find innovative ways to stop you from falling and try to get some more help to lift you.
Friendship is courage...
Friends, They are the only source of our brave hearts. When we don't have any friends we won't come out when there is a trouble. But when we have friends with us, We never sit inside during a friend is in problem. We may not be brave but friendship gives courage to our mind and body. Friends will save us from any situations. Friends will help us to escape from big troubles. Friends will come front to solve the problems. Friendship never knows to runaway during problems. A good friend stays when there is problem and goes after the problem solves.
We can tell a lot about friendship and friends. You may have a lot of friends but try to get a friend who is loyal, trustable to us and be like that to your friend also. That is the only meaning of friendship. "BE LOYAL AND TRUSTABLE". I would like to have some comments for these topics. Comment me with your ideas and thoughts
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Friendship Sayings, Friendship Quotes, Etc.
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Friendship Sayings, Friendship Quotes,
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From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
— Hilaire Belloc
Today a man discovered gold and fame,
Another flew the stormy seas;
One found the germ of a disease.
But what high fates my path attend:
For I — today I found a friend.
— Helen Barker Parker
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Advice
between Best Friends
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend
in the affairs of life.
— Titus Maccius Plautus
Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good,
some of it is bad.
— Unknown Wise Person
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we
must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right
or wrong.
— Pierre Charron
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
— Solon
The best thing one friend can do for another is to refrain from giving
advice.
— Unknown Wise Person
If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice
from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become
a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded.
If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those
who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
— Joseph Marshall Wade
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
— Baltasar Gracian
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to
venture to instruct, even our friends.
— C.C. (Charles Caleb) Colton
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for
very long.
— Robert Lynd
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute.
He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
— Arthur Brisbane
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Adversity
between Best Friends
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
— Homer (9th century B.C.)Friends show their love in times of trouble . . .
— Euripides (408 B.C.)Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
— John Churton Collins
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
— Lois McMaster BujoldFriendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Arguing with
Your Best Friends
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into
a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
— George EliotBe careful of what you say, friendship can end in one minute because
of a stupid word.
— Unknown Wise PersonNo one ever won an argument that lost a friend.
— Unknown Wise PersonA quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship as . . . the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
— Saint Fancis de SalesTruth springs from argument amongst friends.
— David HumeI am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
— Abraham LincolnYou win the victory when you yield to friends.
— SophoclesThe more arguments you win, the fewer friends you'll have.
— Unknown Wise Person
Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Being
Separated from Your Best Friends
Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness
when distant that proves a lasting friendship.
— Susan P. SchultzThe heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
— Elizabeth BowenMy wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
— Unknown Wise PersonThe best of friends must part.
— Unknown Wise PersonDon't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
— Richard BachI am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
— John MuirOdd how much it hurts when a friend moves away — and leaves behind only silence.
— Pam BrownHow lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say good-bye
to.
— Unknown Wise PersonThere is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
— Benjamin DisraeliLetters are visits when friends are apart.
— Unknown Wise PersonNo distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.
— Robert Southey
Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Being True
to Your Best Friends
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
— Henry David ThoreauIf we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four
friends in the world.
— Blaise PascalA friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the
best things you can be.
— Douglas Pagels
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Best
Friends in General
A [best] friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your
accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreamsand offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
— Doris Wild HelmeringBest friends are the siblings God chose not to give us.
— Unknown Wise PersonA best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.
— Unknown Wise PersonFriends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly.
— Unknown Wise PersonMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my
sake.
— Aristotle
All my best friends are so small town.
— Unknown Wise PersonMy friend is one . . . who takes me for what I am.
— Henry David ThoreauEveryone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best
friends listen to what you don't say.
— Unknown Wise PersonThe proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in
the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
— Mark TwainA best friend is one who can tell you all his problems — but doesn't!
— Unknown Wise PersonYour friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
— Elbert Hubbard
Great friends don't let their best friends drink Starbucks.
— Unknown Wise PersonFriends are like windows through which you see out into the world
and back into yourself . . . If you don't have friends you see much less
than you otherwise might.
— Merle ShainBest friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
— Unknown Wise Person
A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
— Christi Mary WarnerFriends are a second existence.
— Baltasar GracianFriends don’t snatch or act snobby, and they don’t argue or disagree.
If you’re nice to them, they’ll be nice to you.
— Julie, American Child, Eight Years OldA friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
— Frances Ward WellerBest friends are those who, when you show up at their door with a dead body,
say nothing, grab a shovel, and follow you.
— Unknown Wise PersonIt is perhaps one of the best achievements to become friends with your
worst enemies and one of the worst disasters to become enemies with
your best friends.
— PhilipposBest friends are fully aware of how retarded you are and still manage to be seen with you in public!
— Unknown Wise PersonFriends are the ones who will consider leaving you when your world is falling apart, but best friends are the ones who will stay with you when your world is falling apart, even if their world might fall apart too.
— Talia CobbBest friends are those who treat you kindly behind your back.
— Unknown Wise PersonA friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your
accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages
your dreams and offers advice — but when you don't follow it, they
still respect and love you.
— Doris Wild Helmering
A best friend in kindergarten is the one who sat next to you and let you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one was left.
— Unknown Wise PersonClose friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute
to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine
taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
— Judith ViorstBest friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.
— Unknown Wise Person
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to
learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to
tell them.— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friends are the sunshine of life.
— John Hay
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
— Marlene Dietrich
Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Borrowing
Money from a Best Friend
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
— Unknown Wise PersonMoney separates more best friends than it unites.
— Unknown Wise PersonThis is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without
security.
— William ShakespeareIt is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets
when he has got holes in his pockets.
— Douglas Hurd
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Buying
Friends with Money
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
— Spike Milligan
You never really know how many friends you have until you buy a house
with a swimming pool and a tennis court.
— Unknown Wise PersonA home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
— Austin O'Malley
Friends that you can buy [with money] are a dime a dozen, and will
shortchange you if given a chance.
— Unknown Wise PersonFriendship that is bought will not stay bought; sooner or later there
will be a higher bidder.
— Unknown Wise Person
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Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Children
and Their Best Friends
Children treat their friends differently than they treat the other
people in their lives. A friendship is a place for experimenting with
new ways of handling anger and aggression. It is an arena for practicing
reciprocity, testing assertiveness, and searching for compromise in
ways children would not try with parents or siblings.
— Lawrence KutnerIt is possible to make friends with our children — but probably not
while they are children.— Donald C. Medeiros
You send a boy to school in order to make friends — the right sort.
— Virginia Woolf
Adolescents sometimes say . . . ”My friends listen to me, but my parents
only hear me talk.” Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.— Laurence Steinberg
Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not,
and they play a critical role in shaping children’s social skills
and their sense of identity . . . The difference between a child with
close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable
to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child
who is distressed in one large area of life.— Zick Rubin
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Communication
Principles for Best Friends
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will
not believe you anyway.
— Elbert HubbardOne of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which
any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
— Jonathan SwiftIt is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them,
and important to our friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlinSilences make the real conversation between friends.
— Margaret Lee RunbeckIf you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
— Marge PiercyIt is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater
to tell him his.
— Benjamin FranklinDon't bore your friends with your troubles. Tell them to your enemies,
who will be delighted to hear about them.
— Unknown Wise PersonExpress a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your
friends that you know how to tell the truth.
— Edgar Watson HoweWhen we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.
— Christian H. Godefroy
Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Criticizing
Your Best Friends
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
— Oliver Wendell HolmesThe boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
— François, Duc De La RochefoucauldAdmonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
— Publilius SyrusDo not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
— Chinese ProverbExcept in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your fiend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.
— Oliver Wendell HolmesDon't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault
and never forgive you.
— Logan Pearsall SmithIf 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
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Definition
of Friendship
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish
of loneliness.
— Dag HammarskjoldFriendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart
warm.
— Augustine BirrellFriendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity
by dividing and sharing it.
— Cicero (44 B.C.)Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to
promote the good and happiness of one another.
— Eustace Budgell (1711)Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and
the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
— Thomas JeffersonNo one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make
up what everyone means by friendship.
— Francis Marion CrawfordFriendship isn't a big thing — it's a million little things.
— Unknown Wise PersonFriendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small
favors for big ones.
— Baron de MontesquieuFriendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to
promote the good and happiness of one another.
— Eustace BudgellFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
— Woodrow WilsonFriendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— AristotleFriendship is a furrow in the sand.
— Tongan Proverb
Friendship is love without his wings.
— Lord ByronThe language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence
above language.
— Henry David ThoreauDo you know what friendship is . . . it is to be brother and sister;
two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
— Victor HugoFriendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
— Muhammed AliFriendship is one mind in two bodies.
— MenciusFriendship . . . It's not about having friends, it's about being one.
Sacrificing your comforts and emotional stability to further improve
theirs.
— Suzanne J, Starr
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Enemies and Best Friends
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
There is only one reason why your enemy can't become your best friend —
YOU!— Unknown Wise Person
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Lord Alfred TennysonSome people make enemies instead of friends because it's less trouble.
— Unknown Wise PersonKeep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
— Al Pacino in the movie The Godfather, Part II (1974)The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
— Arabian ProverbIt is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
— Mahatma GandhiHe who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
— Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
— Thomas JonesFriends are sometimes boring, but enemies — never.
— Mason CooleyThere are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends;
that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar WildeI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my
friends.
— Walt WhitmanHe [Bernard Shaw] hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends
like him.
— Oscar WildeIt takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you
to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news
to you.
— Mark TwainThe antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
— Aristotle
God save me from my friends — I can protect myself from my enemies.
— Unknown Wise Person
Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
— Proverbs 27:6Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Faltering Friendships
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.
— W. Somerset MaughamHe removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from
it respect.
— CiceroWhen a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo,
His best friends hear no more of him.
— Percy ShelleyProsperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
— Publilius SyrusHow often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends,
that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
— Henry David ThoreauThe most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
— Samuel JohnsonNothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges
are fixed in a known routine.
— A. J. CroninFriendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable
to divorce.
— VoltaireWe know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Friendship Sayings and Quotes — Friendship between Men and Women
I have always laid it down as a maxim — and found it justified by
experience — that a man and a woman make far better friendships than
can exist between two of the same sex — but then with the condition
that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
— Lord ByronWomen can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve
it — to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
— Friedrich NietzscheBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
— Oscar WildeNo man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always
wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is
ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
— Nora Ephron
General Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
— Humphrey Bogart in the movie Casablanca (1942)It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
— Zora Neale HurstonTo go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
— Theodore Harold WhiteOne who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
— Geoffrey F. AlbertFriends hold both the power to excel your life, or destroy it.
— Adam MurphyFriendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.
— C. S. Lewis
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
— Al Pacino in the movie The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Friendship Poems
I've discovered a way to stay friends forever —
There's really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!
— Shel Silverstein
Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;
Scatter bits of courtesy — watch them grow and grow.
Gather buds of friendship;
Keep them till full-blown;
You will find more happiness
than you have ever known.
— Amy R. Raabe
Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Happiness
and Friendship
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring
forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
— Thomas JeffersonThe greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Unknown wise personTrue happiness . . . arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
— Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTrue happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do.
— Anna Howard ShawTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
— Samuel JohnstonI had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
— Thomas JeffersonThe happiest business in all the world is that of making friends. And no investment on the street pays larger dividends. For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent. And he who gives in friendship’s name shall reap what he has spent.
— Anne S. EatonLife's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
— Unknown Wise PersonNo man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
— Thomas FullerEvery gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard BachOf all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
Friendship Proverb
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself.
— Chinese proverb
Friendship Saying
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
— Unknown Wise PersonFriendship Quote
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship Quote
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends:
have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
— Dhammapada
More Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
— H. L. MenckenFriends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to
noble deeds.
— AristotleA true friend will go to hell for you. An enemy will certainly try to send you there.
— Unknown Wise Person
Classic Friendship Poems
Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.
— Emily Brontë (1818-48), English novelist, Love and Friendship (1846).
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
— William Blake
He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.
— Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) Retaliation. Line 107.
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Life's Secret Handbook for Having Great Friends has been published in Spanish by Editorial Amat, a division of Planeta, Barcelona, Spain, and in French by Stanké International, Montreal and Paris. It will soon be available in English as an E-book.
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