On Friends
There is a Chinese saying that goes, loosely translated, like this: "At home you count on your parents, outside of your home you count on your friends." And another that goes: "Drinking with a true friend, a thousand cups is not enough." Such are sayings in praise of friendship and the importance of having friends.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. - Jean Paul Richter
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. - Marjorie Holmes
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. - Charles Kingsley
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold Glasow
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. - Henry Ward Beeche
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
It’s the friends we meet along the way that make our journey worthwhile. - Unknown
You cannot expect that a friend should be like the atmosphere, which confers all manner of benefits upon you, and without which indeed it would be impossible to live, but at the same time is never in your way. - Arthur Helps
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. - Homer
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses S. Grant
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Howdy sir Vincent! lots of good quotes here, very important topic and so true, the importance of friendship.