Friendship

[mvaleske]

Mar 1 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course, the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. Emerson

Mar 2 Come let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, and we have friends and no butlers. Ezra Pound

Mar 3 We must, moreover, be as careful to keep friends as to make them. The affections should not be mere "tents of the night". SirJjohn Lubbock

Mar 4 He that hath no friend, and no enemy, is one of the vulgar; and without talents, power, or energy. Lavater

Mar 5 The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one. Seneca

[mvaleske]

Mar 6 So regard your friend as though he may become an enemy. Laberius

Mar 7 The harvest of friendship is gathered only by those who have sown the seeds of a kindly purpose and trust. The friends thou hast, and their adoptions tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. Shakespeare

Mar 8 To ease another's heartache, is to forget one's own. Lincoln

Mar 9 Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,-perhaps may turn his blow!
But all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! Canning

Mar 10 A fav'rite has no friend! Gray

[phil]

Lots of good ones. I especially like March 8... cuz it's one I've gained a lot from myself.

[mvaleske]

Mar 11 We do not wish for friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits. Thortan

Mar 12 Lincoln and Washington were great men but in everyday life the fellow who has stood by you, borne with you and shared with you has got something on both.

Mar 13 Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it it may soon run itself out of breath. Thomas Fuller

Mar 14 How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go out and meet their ideal cousins! Thoreau

Mar 15 Even the gods need friends. Greek proverb

[mvaleske]

Got a little behind there. Sorry if you are reading these every day. Here you go . . .

Mar 16 There is no wind of March which cuts half so deep as the unkind words of a friend.

Mar 17 One ought to never speak of the faults of one's friends, it mutilates them; they can never be the same afterwards. W.D. Howell

Mar 18 Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
No named thee but to praise. Halleck

Mar 19 When thine heart goeth out to a man seek not to call it back, for it is better in the keeping of a friend than in thine own. Christopher Bannister

Mar 20 Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke up the unused path. Scandinavian, Edda.

Mar 21 If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. Holmes

Mar 22 If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. Johnson

Mar 23 There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. Thomas a Kempis

Mar 24 Love Him and keep Him for thy friend, who when all go away will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. Thomas a Kempis

Mar 25 heaven gives us friends, to bless the present scene; resumes to prepare us for the next. Young