He who has a thousand
friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet,
1803-1882)
A true
friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere
else.
(Len Wein, American writer and editor, born
1948)
A friend is
one who knows you, and loves you just the same.
(Elbert Hubbard, American editor and writer,
1856-1915)
Friendship
is the only cement that will ever hold the world
together.
(Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the USA,
1856-1924)
Friendship
is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
(Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese mystic, painter and poet,
1883-1931)
True friends
are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around
you.
(Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter,
1945-1981)
It is easier
to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
(William Blake, English poet and painter,
1757-1827)
True
friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known
until it is lost.
(Charles Caleb Colton, English author,
1780-1832)
A good deed
is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who
plants kindness gathers love.
(Saint Basil the Great, catholic bishop, 329-379
A.D.)
The only
way to have a friend is to be one.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet,
1803-1882)
True
friends visit us in prosperity only when invited,
but in
adversity they come without invitation.
(Theophrastus, Greek philosopher,
372-287 B.C.)
The rule of
friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between
them,
each
supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the
other,
always using friendly and sincere
words.
(Buddha)
A farewell is necessary before you can meet
again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is
certain for those who are friends.
(Richard Bach, American author, born 1936)
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon
the terms of equality.
(Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the USA,
1856-1924)
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.
(Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian yogi,
1893-1952)
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes
time - we haven't time - and to see takes time,
like having a friend takes time.
(Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter,
1887-1986)
The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear
makes strangers of people who should be friends.
(Shirley McLaine, American actress, born
1934)
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than
a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend
will wound your mind.
(Buddha)