Hell of a Paradise

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."
- William Blake

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)

"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 not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (341 - 270 BC)

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
- Socrates
"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

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle

"The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship."
- William Blake

"A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome

"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak."
- John Donne

"Friends have all things in common."
- Plato

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the true sourse of art, science, and friendship."
- Albert Einstien

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller

"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A friend to all is a friend to none."
- Aristotle

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Friendship? Yes Please."
-Charles Dickens

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.