30 July – United Nations’ Friendship Day
1001: Nature of Friendship
Friendship is one relationship that when nurtured will last a lifetime. This type of relationship is so special that it has been studied again and again by sociologist, scientists, psychologists and anyone else who really have the time to find out.
Tv shows have also been made of this form of attachment. In fact one of my most favourite tv shows, which I think is above the rest of most comedy shows is called Friends. It was such a good show that it lasted for several series/season and left such a fond and nostalgic memories to viewers and fans. Even the heiress, Paris Hilton was inspired to look for a BFF in front of the camera: the surest way to not find a lifelong friends.
Apparently the start to a beautiful friendship is a smile. If you catch someone else’s eyes, give them a smile. It is hard to ignore a smile freely given. 🙂
But what is friendship? Why do we need friends? When do we not need a friend? What makes a friend?
Friend + Enemy = Frenemy
Foe + Friend = Faux Friend
Let’s us find out the pros and cons of friendship.
A friend is a second self.
– Aristotle
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A friend is he that loves, and he that is beloved.
—Hobbe.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend that ain’t in need is a friend indeed.
– Kin Hubbard
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” Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. ”
– Oscar Wilde
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A pure friendship inspires, cleanses, expands, and strengthens the soul.
—Alger.
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A true friend is more precious to the soul than all which it inherits beneath the sun.
—Irving.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
– Socrates
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Be admonished not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.
—Emerson.
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Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.
– Chinese Proverb
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Friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.
—Addison.
Friendship, like love, is but a name
Unless to one you stint the flame.
The child, whom many fathers share,
Hath seldom known a father’s care.
‘Tis thus in friendships; who depends
On many, rarely finds a friend.
— Gay.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
—Tacitus.
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” Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. ”
– C. S. Lewis
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Friendship does not spring up and grow great and become perfect all at once, but requires time and the nourishment of thoughts.
—Dante.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good fortune.
—Aristotle.
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Friendship is the great chain of human society.
—Howell.
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
—Cicero.
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God’s apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmill
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He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
—Plautus.
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He who abides in friendship abides in God. - John Eriugena
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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
– Peter Ustinov
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I prefer acquaintances to friends. They don’t expect you to call or go to their children’s wedding.
– A.A. Gill
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I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
– William Blake
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Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
– Spike Milligan
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O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.
– Voltaire
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
– Leon Uris
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Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease to love.
—Fuller.
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Rare is true love: true friendship is still rarer.
—Rochefoucauld.
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Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
—Rochefoucauld.
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Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.
—Chesterfield.
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True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
—Theophrastus.
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The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,—cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends.
—Lavater.
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To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
—Vaughan.
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True friends stab you in the front.
– Oscar Wilde
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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. ”
– Mary Catherwood
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The man who prefers his dearest friend to the call of duty will soon show that he prefers himself to his dearest friend.
—Robertson
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little in me dies.
– Gore Vidal
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
– Elbert Hubbard
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