Friendship Quotes - Page 58

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

I said I love you and that's forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Love is friendship with erotic moments.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!