Reflections on...Friendship

So yes, I know the last post was supposed to be this one but I just *had* to note down/share the Ostrich idea!

So here we go now - some quotations on friendship I liked...

Frances Ward Weller
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

Unknown
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Danish proverb
A road to a friend's house is never long.

Unknown
Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.

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

George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

John Churton Collins
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

Edgar Watson Howe
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Katherine Mansfield
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Unknown
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Unknown
Friends are the siblings, God never gave us.

Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

David Tyson Gentry
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Elbert Hubbard
Never Explain — your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe
you anyway.

Unknown
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Unknown
If you were another person, would you want to be a friend of yours?

Unknown
Friendship is a responsibility....not and opportunity.

Unknown
Friends are those who speak to you after others don't.

Unknown
The way to have friends is to be willing to lose some arguments.

Unknown
If a friend makes a mistake, don't rub it in....rub it out.

Unknown
You will never find a friend if you must have one without faults.

Unknown
Doing nothing for your friends results in having no friends to do for.

Unknown
A real friend is a person who, when you've made a fool of yourself, lets you forget it.

Unknown
A friend is a person who listens attentively while you say nothing

Unknown
A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg, even though you're slightly cracked.

Anaïs Nin
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.

Aldous Huxley
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and more symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Richard Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Homer
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Len Wein
A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Elbert Hubbert
A friend is the person who knows all about you and still loves you.

Louisa May Alcott
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Robert Brault
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Chinese Proverb
To attract good fortune spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.


Well...I know I said *some* but oh well... *grin*