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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William Hazlitt
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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.
Pam Brown
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
Jonathan Swift
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on.
Amy Marie Walz, quotation submit
A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye.
Anon.
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Proverb
