General
7.3
"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
"Don't walk in front of me... I may not followDon't walk behind me... I may not leadWalk beside me... just be my friend"
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."
"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."
"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'."
"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?"
"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
"A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success."