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I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Oct 1, 2025
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.
It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
No matter what may be happening today, God has good things in store for your future! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.
So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
Those 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-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Friends make life a lot more fun.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.