Quotes about friendship
(page 5)
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it's rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get 'overworked' and need to rest.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.