Friendship

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Is made of love and friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

’TIS THE PRIVILEGE OF FRIENDSHIP TO TALK NONSENSE, AND TO HAVE HER NONSENSE RESPECTED.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

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

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

There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

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 is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction .

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