FRIENDSHIP

Alone bad. Friend good. Friend good!

-the Monster to Heggie, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN


Spike:You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other til it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children. It's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

-"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.
-Anon

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
-Anon

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldnt jump with them I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
-Anon

A friend if like a good bra, close to your heart, hard to find and supportive.
-Anon

A long time ago we knew each other for a short period...It was easy back then. No one had a cushier berth than we did. It's not surprising our friendship could survive that. It's only out there inthe real world that it gets tough.
-Nick to the group, THE BIG CHILL

I liked it for the most selfish reason of all, because i was young. We all were, me Epstein and Wykowski, Selridge, Carney, Hennesey, and even Sergeant Toomey. I didn't really like most of those guys then, but today I love every damn one of them. Life is weird, you know.
-Eugene's voice over at the end, BILOXI BLUES

Friend. The finest word in any language.
-Tone, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY 1935

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasure.
-Kahlil Gibran (1833-1931)

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
-Kahlil Gibran (1833-1931)

Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck

Friendship’s the wine of life.
-Edward Young (1683-1765)

There’s nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.
-Diana Dors (1931-1984)

A friend is one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
-Alban Goodier

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way.
-Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

Old friends are best. Fink James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
-John Seldon (1584-1654)

May the frost never afflict your spurs. May the outside leaves of your cabbage be free from worms. May the crows never pick your haystack, and may your donkey always be in foal...And may you be half-an-hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead.
-from “SLANTE, Your Book of Irish Toasts and Irish Whiskey”

May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live! May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back, the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields...
-from “SLANTE, Your Book of Irish Toasts and Irish Whiskey”

The best moments of a visit are those which again and again postpone its close.
-Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

For what do my friends stand? Not for the clever things they say; I do not remember them half an hour after they are spoken. It is always the unspoken, the unconscious, which is their reality to me.
-Mark Rutherford (1831-1913)

...The solidest thing we know
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

But every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it.
-Elizabeth Shane, fl.1920’s

These things I wish you for our friendship’s sake: A sunburnt thatch, a door to face the sun...a kind, old, lazy, chair, a courtly cat to rub against your knees, Shelves of well-chosen books - I wish you these.
-W.M. Letts, from ‘Wishes for William’

Happiness seems to be shared.
-Jean Racine (1639-1699)