© Copyright Ada Kanu 2010

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
~ Charles Caleb Colton

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
~ Anais Nin

“My friends are my estate.”
~ Emily Dickinson

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
~ Anonymous

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out”
~ Walter Winchell

“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
~ Len Wein

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.”
~ Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies)

“Every person is a new door to a different world.”
~ from the movie “Six Degrees of Seperation”

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
~ John Leonard

“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
~ Francois Mocuriac

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
~ Mencius

“True friendship is never serene.”
~ Mariede Svign

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.”
~ Marlene Dietrick

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.”
~ Collins English Dictionary

“A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon”
~ Emma Stacey

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“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.”
~ William Shakespeare

“Friendship with oneself is all - important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
~ Mother Teresa

“I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
~ Aristotle

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
~ Mark Twain

“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”
~ Cicero

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
~ George Herbert