Friday, January 13, 2006

Admirable Friendship Messages !

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."

~ Socrates


"Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."

~ Aesop


"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."

~ Charles De Gaulle

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Walk Beside Me And Be My Friend !

Making a million friends is not a miracle, the miracle is to make a friend who will stand by you when a million are against you.


"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
~ Albert Camus.


"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

~ Aristotle.


"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
~ Joseph Addison.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Only Virtuous Have Friends !

"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"

~ Robert Louis Stevenson


"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
~ Henry Kissinger


"The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends."

~ Voltaire

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

A Friend Is Very Precious !

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

~ Charles Caleb Colton


"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson


"A friend is a present you give yourself."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson


"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Monday, January 09, 2006

Intimate Friendship!

"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then."
~ Henry David Thoreau


"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

~ Martin Luther King


"Silence is a friend who will never betray."

~ Confucius


"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."

~ Logan Pearsall Smith