Our Friends

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.
Madame Anne Therese de Lambert

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
Author Unknown

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
Jean de la Fontaine

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. Chinese Proverb

It is true that friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
Louis Kronenberger

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Russian Proverb

It is one of the severest test of friendship to tell your friend of his fault. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, this is friendship. But few have such friends.
Henry Ward Beecher

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

A friendship can weather most silly things and thrive in thin soil - but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown