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Quotes about friends and friendsh
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. (Bridges Beau)
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. (Bridges Beau)
Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past. (Bridges Beau)
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. (Bridges Beau)
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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. (Bridges Beau)
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things. (Bridges Beau)
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. (Bridges Beau)
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. (Bridges Beau)
Good friends are good for your health. (Bridges Beau)
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. (Bridges Beau)
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. (Bridges Beau)
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do. (Bridges Beau)
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. (Bridges Beau)
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others. (Bridges Beau)
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. (Bridges Beau)
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. (Bridges Beau)
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all. (Bridges Beau)
Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. (Bridges Beau)
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. (Bridges Beau)
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. (Bridges Beau)
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade. (Bridges Beau)
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. (Bridges Beau)
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (Bridges Beau)
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. (Bridges Beau)
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. (Bridges Beau)
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