friendship Status

"Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship."

"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins."

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means."

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."