βDon't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.β
Arthur Guiterman
βDon't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.β
βMaintaining cordial relationship with friends helps us improve our own capabilities.β
βHe who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.β
βOpen rebuke is better than secret love.β
βGet not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.β
βDepth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.β
βThe vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.β
βFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.β
βPoverty parts good company.β
βBefore borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.β
βFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.β
βFriendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.β
βFriendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.β
βWe know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.β
βA doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.β
βFriends are flowers that never fade.β
βOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.β
βA friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.β
βA true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.β
βMisfortune tests friends, and detects enemies.β
βYou don't lose anyone when you lose fake friends.β
βA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.β
βConfidence is the bond of friendship.β
βBe polite to all, but intimate with few.β
βLove and friendship exclude each other.β
βTrade knows neither friends nor kindred.β
βMake new friends but cherish the old ones.β
βAssociate with the good and you will be one of them.β
βMy friends are my estate.β
βBe civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.β
βI don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.β
βMore precious than love or intellect, what has made me happy is friendship.β
βFriendship is the herb that shortens moments of sorrow and the fruit that helps time forget.β
βWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.β
βFriendship is love without wings.β
βA friend in need is a friend indeed.β
βA bird has its nest, a spider its web, and a human has friendship.β