My Friends

When we talk about Friends, I believe the following:

• The only way to have a friend is to be one

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

• A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life. Real friend says, What's new with you?

• A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book

• I get by with a little help from my friends.

• Friends are God's way of taking care of us. If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

• If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

• Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

• Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

• Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

• Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

• Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

• I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.

• The best mirror is an old friend.

• The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

• Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.

• Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

• Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

• Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud

• If you were somebody else, would you want to be friends with you?

• We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.

• The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.

• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

• A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

• Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

• My friends are my estate.

• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

• I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

• The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.

• Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background.

• Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

• I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

• Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

• Friends are born, not made.

• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

• Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.

• True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

• I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends.

• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

• It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm...

• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

• No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

• The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

• There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

• The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

• Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

• One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

• There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Now when you have either scrolled to the bottom or read all the Famous Quotes on Friends, I would like to tell you that I always love to be friends with the REAL people. If I start listing my friends here, I would probably end up the space everywhere around on these pages. But still, I will mention a few....and for whose of my friends reading this and looking for their name and not finding it here, shoot me a mail of anger and I will apologize to you and correct that immediately. The reason I may have forgotten you is that you may be residing in my heart then in my mind. :-)