Friend

Proverbs Cancerning Friend and Friendship

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another;people are friends in spots.

Friendship is like a plant of slow growth.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

It is well that there is no one without a fault,for he would not have a friend in the world .

It is only the greathearted who can be true friends;the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is.

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

No man can be happy without a friend,nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance;they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body,friendship for the soul.

Old friends and old wine are best.

The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend.He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.

The more we love our friends,the less we flatter them.

The true friendship seeks to give,not take;to help,not to be helped;to minister,not to be ministered unto.

To prepare a friend,three things are required : to honour him present,praise him absent,and assist him in his necessarities.

Choose thy friends like thy books,few but choice.

My friend is not perfect---nor am I ---and so we suit each other admirably.

The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.