Friendship

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

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

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

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

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

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.