Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.