A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend to all is a friend to none.
모든 사람에게 친구인 사람(a friend to all)은 누구에게도 친구가 아니다(a friend to none).
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
단 한 송이의 장미(a single rose)가 내 정원이 될 수(can bemy garden) 있듯이 한 명의 친구가 내 세계가 될 수(canbe my world)있다.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
진실되지 않고 사악한 친구(an insincere and evil friend)는 야수(野獸)보다 더 두려워해야 한다(be more to be feared than a wild beast). 야수는 몸에 상처를 남기지만(wound your body) 사악한 친구는 정신에 상처를 입힌다(wound your mind).
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
Albert Camus
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
Margaret Walker
Friendship and money: oil and water.
우정과 돈(Friendship and money)은 물과 기름 같다(be like oil and water).
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
우정은 두 몸에 깃든 하나의 영혼(a single soul dwelling in two bodies)이다.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
나는 내가 변할 때 변하는 친구(a friend who changes when I change ), 내가 끄덕일 때 끄덕이는 친구는 필요하지 않다(don’t need a friend who nods when I nod). 그건 내 그림자(my shadow)가 훨씬 더 잘한다(do that much better).
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
나는 나를 위해 일정표에서 시간을 내주는 친구를 높이 평가한다(value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar). 하지만 일정표를 찾아보지도 않는 친구를 소중히 여긴다(cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar).
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
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
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
많은 사람들이 당신과 함께 리무진 타기를 원한다(want to ride with you in the limo). 그러나 당신이 원하는 것은 리무진이 고장났을 때 버스를 함께 타겠다는 사람(someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down)이다.
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
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
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
친구는 당신을 속속이 알면서도(know all about you) 그래도 당신을 좋아해주는(and still like you) 사람이다.
Elbert Hubbard
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
True friends stab you in the front.
진짜 친구는앞에서 찌른다(stab you in the front).
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
친구가 곤경에 처해 있을 때(when a friend is in trouble) 당신이 뭔가 해줄 수 있는 것이 있느냐고 물어서(by asking if there is anything you can do) 화나게 하지 마라. 알아서 적절한 무언가를 생각해내(think up something appropriate)그걸 해줘라.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
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