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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your read more
People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
Good friends are good for your health.
Good friends are good for your health.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot read more
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can read more
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.