Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 109

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.

I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb''ring my good friends.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.

The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch''d, unfledg''d comrade.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.

Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man''s success in life.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man''s milk and restorative cordial.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend''s success.

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the true sourse of art, science, and friendship.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

My friends are my estate.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

In a friend you find a second self.

Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

Friendship is love with wings."
The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship.

Think where man''s glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.