let them feel that they are interesting and worthy of your company,
so show an interest, ask them about themselves,
where they live, work, their interests, hopes and dreams,
friends, family, loved ones, hobbies, opinions on the kind of things you like,
whether it be football, music, religion, philosophy, science, TV or anything else.
Quotations by Subject
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
- Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
- It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
- Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
- Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
- Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
- Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
- 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.
- Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
- All people want is someone to listen.
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
- Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- 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.
- You don’t get to pick your own nickname. They’ve gotta give you one. It’s like we’re all tryin’ to make pets out of each other and we’re not comfortable unless we get to name ‘em.
- It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
- A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
- Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
- If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
- Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
- I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
- Friends have all things in common.
- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
- The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
- Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
- The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
- There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
- When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
- You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
- There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
- Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
- Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
- I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
- 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.
- I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
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