If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. Friend-making, everywhere, friend-finding soul, Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. But he that loves to be loved, And in his deeds doth adore Heaven's power, And is with pity moved; The night gives rest to his heart, The cheerful beams do awake his soul, Revived in every part. He lives a comfort to his friends, And Heaven to him such blessing sends. What's the good of money if it ain't to help a friend out with? I believe in friends, I do. Here we go hopping around this little world for a small time, and then that's done. S'pose you ain't got any real friends for the trip? Rotten, I say. Grieve not at doing well to friends Always in preaching the parson had looked for the face of his friend; always it had been his mainstay, interpreter, steadfast advocate in every plea for perfection of life. Samuel Robert Robert E. Lee Thomas Henry Phillips Plautus James Phædrus Samuel Johnson Henry W. Longfellow Richard Hovey Alexander Pope Bruce Hender son Cicero Michael de Mont aigne on "Friend ship" The name of friend is common, but faith in friendship is rare. We may have many acquaintances, but we can have few friends. Yes, we must ever be friends, and of all who offer you friendship, Let me ever be the first, the truest, the nearest, and the dearest. This is my friend-through good or ill report Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. It is not so difficult to sacrifice principle to oblige a friend as it is to give up one's feeling of superiority over him. He who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. Common friendship will admit of division, one may love the beauty of this, the good humor of that person, the liberality of a third, the paternal affection of a fourth, the fraternal love of a fifth, and so on. But this friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. You have done me friendships infinite and often. The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. A true heart admits of but one friendship, as of one love; but in having that friend I have a thousand. A friend ought to shun no pain, to stand his friend in stead. So, if I live or die to serve my friend, 'T is for my love-'t is for my friend alone, And not for any rate that friendship bears In heaven or on earth. It is no excuse for wrong doing that you do wrong for the sake of a friend. Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not. Let us be friends, and treat each other like friends. Whene'er we grasp the hands of those The flame of friendship burns and glows The friendship between you and me I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree break. Beaumont Fletcher Thomas William Richard George Cicero Proberbs of Solomon Lincoln Eliza George 80 Shakespeare Pope Proberb Robert Louis Steven son James Henry Beecher Gold smith Rabbi Hillel A friend whose thoughts most truly labor to recompense your love. Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide. When a friend asks, there is no to-mor row. The solitude of the most sublime idealist is broken in upon by other people's faces; he sees a look in their eyes that corresponds to something in his own heart; there comes a tone in their voice which convicts him of a startling weakness for his fellow creatures. Oh, the present is too sweet Who can say what waits for us? Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart. A kind and gentle heart he had, Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place. What can be more encouraging than to find the friend who was welcome at one age welcome at another? Of our mixed life two quests are given control: None may charge that I have smiled on him in order to use him, or called him my friend that I might make him do for me the work of a servant. Nothing is more friendly to a man than a friend in need. Cultivate the friendships of thy youth; it is only in that generous time they are formed. Though in distant lands we sigh, The desire to be beloved is ever restless and unsatisfied; but the love that flows out upon others is a perpetual wellspring from on high. Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur James Allen Plautus William Thack eray "When Lydia Maria Child |