Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus |
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin |
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus |
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard |
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine |
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.
Alice Duer Miller |
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer |
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig |
Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams |
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo |
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle |
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich |
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust |
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey |
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker |
Friendship 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.
Charles Alexander Eastman |
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington |
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson |
