Friendship(62)

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
Plutarch

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
Joseph Roux

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
Margaret Lee Runbeck

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
George Santayana

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
Henry David Thoreau

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
George Washington

"True friends stab you in the front."
Oscar Wilde