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.
Date of birth: 1932-01-24
Date of death: 1996-10-02
Quotes number: 4
Nationality: Dutch
Profession: Clergyman
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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.
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.
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.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.