Musings On Friendship
MUSINGS ON FRIENDSHIP
‘The only way to have a friend is to be one’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Love demands infinitely less than friendship’
George Jean Nathan
‘The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, but when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.’
‘It is easier to find fault with others, but it is not so easy to live so that others will not see faults in us. We tend to criticise our friends for doing things we could do no better.’
‘Yesterday is but a reflection
Today is now
Tomorrow is a bonus.’
Jim Billingsley
‘Choose your friends with care, that you may have choice friends.’
‘I breathed a song into the air,
it fell to earth, I know not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
that it can follow the flight of song:-
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.’
(Excerpt) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
‘The anxiety of some people to make new friends is so intense that they never have old ones.’
‘People are lonely because they build forts instead of bridges.’
Joseph Fort Newton
‘Who ceases to be a friend, never was one.’
‘A real friend never gets in the way, unless you hap-pen to be on the way down.’
‘True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.’
Charles Caleb Colton
‘Life is not so much what each individual makes of it, but what we make of it for each other.’
‘Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.’
‘Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.’
‘Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.’
Anna Cummins