real friendship

There are "friends" who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. ~Proverbs 18:24 (NLT)

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." ~George Washington

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." ~Aristotle

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads, or frostwork, but the solidest things we know. A friend is the first person who come in when the whole world has gone out." ~unknown

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." ~David Tyson Gentry

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honouring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities." ~unknown

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." ~Robert Southey

(January 29, 2008)