Life's simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature's sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends -- home's dear content, so cheap that all may buy.(Ripley D. Saunders)
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.(Mary Schmich)
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself... If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.(Merle Shain)
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.(Cornelia Otis Skinner)
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.(Muriel Spark)
It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.(Charles R. Swindoll)
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.(The Talmud)
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.(Jeremy Taylor)
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.(Nikola Tesla)
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.(Steve Tesich)
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.(Jeremy Thorpe)
