Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 103

It isn''t kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

True 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.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

It''s the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

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.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

If you make it plain you like people, it''s hard for them to resist liking you back.

A good friend of my son''s is a son to me.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven''t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Friends have all things in common.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.