Quotes about friend
friend great hard orange
It's great. It's hard to see her in orange and black, but she's a great friend to all of us and it will be fun.
friend interested mine seemed unusual
It seemed unusual to us that Sen. Stevens would be interested in this mine in particular. He's been no friend to environmentalists.
friend gives joe painful tough
It's awfully tough -- it's painful -- when a friend gives you justifiable criticism, and that's what Joe did, Erskine Bowles
friendship beer boys
It was Saturday late, have you seen my mates, can you tell me when the boys get here? Well, it's seven o'clock and I want to rock and get a belly full of beer. Elton John
friendship strong lips
Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
friendship wine men
Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,-- There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.
friendship night thinking
I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light...
friendship cute thankful
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
friendship men names
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.
friendship july letters
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
friends distrust deceived
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
friendship self office
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
friendship true-friend possession
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
friendship best-friend misfortunes
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
friends men self
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
friendship soul understanding
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.
friendship heart sincerity
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
friendship vanity littles
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
friendship failing sincerity
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
friendship gratitude kindness
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
friendship opposites grace
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
friendship self judging
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
friendship perfect taste
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.
friendship self traffic
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
friends religious people
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
friends self judging
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
friends regret grief
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
friends men self
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
friends thinking self
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. Francis Quarles
friendship family im-sorry
Friends are God's apology for relations.
friend lovers met next women
Collette Duvall is a woman, a friend of mine, that I met when I was about 50 years old, and for the next 15, 16 years we were on-and-off lovers and always friends, Robert Blake
friends good-friend doors
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door. Jane Rule
friendship heart vanity
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect! Jane Porter