Friends - Quotes
I don`t like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn`t stop for anybody.
Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
Hard times show you who your real friends are. That is because the point of friendship, in evolutionary terms, is to save you in hard times when it`s not worth anyone else`s trouble.
The comfortable environment that makes us physically more secure may make us emotionally less secure, because it minimizes the crises that tell us who our real friends are.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.