A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Copy Quote View & ShareI have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareA true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Copy Quote View & ShareFriendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareTwo persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Copy Quote View & ShareFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Copy Quote View & ShareSilences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Copy Quote View & ShareMen kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Copy Quote View & ShareYes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Copy Quote View & ShareA friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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