allysonstroud’s most recent Quotables

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps, perhaps, love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Its easier to guard against an enemy than a friend

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

True friendship is never serene.

If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don’t you think? Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings