Friendship

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art....

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

WHAT DRAWS PEOPLE TO BE FRIENDS IS THAT THEY SEE THE SAME TRUTH. THEY SHARE IT.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often just to save it from drying out completely.

I rang them up while touring Timbucktoo, Those bosom chums to whom you’re known as “Who?”

 

I had three chairs in my house; one forsolitude, two for friendship; three for society.When visitors came in larger and unexpectednumbers there was but the third chair for themall, but they generally economized the room bystanding up.

Hail, fellow, well met,

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.