Friendship(62)

"Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you."
Alice Duer Miller

"When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man."
Alice Duer Miller

"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."
Alice Duer Miller

"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world."
Alice Duer Miller

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
Toni Morrison

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
Henri Nouwen

"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."
Douglas Pagels

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
Samuel Pepys

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
Laurence J. Peter

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
Plautus