Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 74

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Friendship
I''ve discovered a way to stay friends forever
There''s really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!

The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don''t like you" simply means "I don''t have you as a friend."

This is my beloved and this is my friend.

Friendship needs no words...

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Yes''m, old friends is always best, ''less you can catch a new one that''s fit to make an old one out of.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

A friend loves at all times.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I''m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

It''s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It''s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship.