Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
~
Harvey MacKay
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
~
David Tyson Gentry
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~
Elisabeth Foley
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
~
Homer
It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.
~
La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence.
A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A friend in power is a friend lost.
~
Henry Adams
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
~
Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
~
Author Unknown
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
A true friend stabs you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
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.
~ Oscar Wilde
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
~
Albert Camus
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith;
sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
~
William A. Ward
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
~ C.S. Lewis
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~
Donna Roberts
A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.
~
Sasha Azevedo
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
~
Tennessee Williams
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
~
Ashleigh Brilliant
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~
Dr. Seuss
Friends are like rainbows they brighten your life after you've been through a storm.
~
Author Unknown
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
~
Plutarch
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
~ Aristotle
Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness.
~
Euripides
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
~
Edgar Watson Howe
Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.
~
Frank H T Rhodes
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 you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust
you with a friendship.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Arapaho ~ Native American Proverbs
Hope is the physician of each misery.
~ Irish Proverbs
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
~ John F. Kennedy
