Friendship Wishes and Status Messages - Page 100

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?

One doesn''t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one''s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they''re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they''re not so bad.

In everyone''s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.

You can always tell a real friend: when you''ve made a fool of yourself he doesn''t feel you''ve done a permanent job.

It''s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

One''s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

If a friend is in trouble, don''t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It''s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.