Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 108

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I''ll tell thee what thou art.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ''tis better to be alone than in bad company.

"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

"No man is useless while he has a friend."

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose."

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend''s interest and inclination.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

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

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min''?

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

I know our friendship will never end."
Don''t walk in front of me, I may not follow.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

Good friends are good for your health.-

If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!

Don''t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.

Keep your friendships in repair.

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

It 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.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

It is more shameful to distrust one''s friends than to be deceived by them.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship''s sake.

"A friend is a present you give yourself."