The friend who holds your hand

The friend who holds your hand
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.  ~Author Unknown


The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.  ~Barbara Kingsolver


Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.  ~E.W. Howe


There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.  ~Edith Wharton


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  ~Benjamin Franklin


The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.  ~Author Unknown


The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him.  They cherish each other's hopes.  They are kind to each other's dreams.  ~Henry David Thoreau


If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.  ~Alice Duer Miller


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.  ~Anäis Nin


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  ~Eustache Deschamps


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.  ~Emil Ludwig


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843


Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.  ~Samuel Pepys


A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Hold a true friend with both your hands.  ~Nigerian Proverb


Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.  ~Sarah Orne Jewett


I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~Blaise Pascal


If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets


Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.  ~Francesco Guicciardini


The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.  ~Gwyneth Paltrow


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Mencius


Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.  ~Dag Hammarskjold


What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  ~Aristotle


I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.  ~Thomas A. Edison


Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack.  Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  ~Plutarch


The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.  ~David Storey


Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends.  Bury the carcass of friendship:  it is not worth embalming.  ~William Hazlitt


It's no good trying to keep up old friendships.  It's painful for both sides.  The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.  ~Somerset Maugham


Friends are like walls.  Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there.  ~Author Unknown


In my friend, I find a second self.  ~Isabel Norton

The friend who holds your hand