T. S. Eliot Quotes

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

I think people who are destined to be friends, that are best friends, that genuinely, truly are invested in each other as human beings - a fight won't separate you forever. I've definitely had fights with my best friend, but it has never made us sever ties.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Friendship's full of dregs.

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.

I've had the same group of friends for more than 30 years and although I am not always great at keeping in touch, I am very loyal to people who are important to me.

When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.

I've heard it said that the average person is lucky to have only a handful of true friends in their lifetime. Well, I sincerely feel I've got millions.

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.