Sunday, December 5, 2010 – Just Friends
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best; they are merely the people who got there first. ~ Peter Ustinov
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend’s love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better. ~ Randy K. Milholland
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 H. Glasgow
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~ Elbert Hubbard
If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. ~ Laurence J. Peter
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~ C. S. Lewis
It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~ Marlene Dietrich
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ Oprah Winfrey
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~ John Leonard
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~ E. W. Howe
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~ Eustache Deschamps
My mother never breastfed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend. ~ Rodney Dangerfield
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. ~ Alice Duer Miller
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~ Blaise Pascal
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ~ Franklin P. Jones
True friends stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ~ George Washington
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. ~ Abraham Lincoln
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. ~ Harry S. Truman
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. ~ Groucho Marx
When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. ~ Edward Abbey
The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. ~ Doug Larson
I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend. ~ Emo Philips
The monster was the best friend I ever had. ~ Boris Karloff
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. ~ Carl Sandburg
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you’re with someone, like you have a companion. ~ Annie Leibovitz
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ~ William Hazlitt
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. ~ Samuel Butler
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ~ E. M. Forster
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. ~ Clifton Fadiman