Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Octavia Butler on friendship
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald on friendship
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian on friendship
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes on friendship
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen on friendship
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine on friendship
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama on friendship
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold on friendship
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin on 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. Charles Alexander Eastman on friendship
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman on friendship
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. Virginia Woolf on friendship
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake on friendship
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. King Solomon on friendship
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett on friendship
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin on friendship
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes on friendship
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Baltasar Gracian on friendship
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy on friendship