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Friends and Friendship
- Mr. ravi kumar

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Friends and Friendship Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman A faithful friend is the medicine of life. Apocrypha Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino 1492-1556, Italian Writer To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'' Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Without friends no one would choose to live. Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach 1936-, American Author Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore De Balzac 1799-1850, French Novelist Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827, German Composer When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953, British Author A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure. Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17] Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph S. Bourne 1886-1918, American Writer False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer How delightful to find a friend in everyone. Joseph Brodsky 1940-, Russian-born American Poet, Critic If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855, British Novelist Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe. John Mason Brown 1800-1859, American Militant Abolitionist Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. Jean De La Bruyère 1645-1696, French Classical Writer A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience. Charles Bukowski 1920-1994, German Poet, Short Stories Writer, Novelist Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951, American Writer, Humorist) A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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