Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 101

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.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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.

A friend can tell you things you don''t want to tell yourself.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

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.

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn''t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss y

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.

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.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn''t matter.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.

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.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

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.

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.

''Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

It is not so much our friends help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.