Quotes About Companionship

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter, and the love of friends.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

A true friend is the best possession.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all.

Forget your woes when you see your friend.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The friend of 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.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

Friends come and go, enemies linger.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.