Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 47

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

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

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

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

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.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

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?

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Don''t cry over anyone who won''t cry over you.

You can only go as far as you push.

Actions speak louder than words.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Good friends are good for your health.

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.

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.