Quotes about friends
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.
friendship hell
Hell, madame, is to love no longer. Georges Bernanos
friends ignored neglected
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored. George Sand
friendship real writing
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
friendship good-friend determined
It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten." Jean Paul
friendship departed world
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
friendship real hate
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
friendship best-friend real-friends
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met. Jim Henson
friendship wise dog
He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him. Jerome K. Jerome
friends technology doors
Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor. Jeffrey Klein
friendship basketball running
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Jesse Owens
friends regret three
My part had three lines. I said, You look wonderful, sir, three times. All my friends said, Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life. I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once. Jeffrey Tambor
friendship two mind
Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine. Jackson Browne
friendship running eye
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
friendship glasses faults
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass. George Harrison
friendship true-friend enemy
You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
friendship rocks my-best-friend
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend. Christina Perri
friendship grief joy
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. Francis Bacon
friendship best-friend thank-you
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. Frances Farmer
friends kindness thinking
It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream. Fran Lebowitz
friends responsibility thinking
for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.
friendship jail affair
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
friendship jobs children
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed ...
friendship best-friend intimate-relationships
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few. George Washington
friendship friendly answers
Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
friendship may covenant
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.
friendship letters study
Letters of friendship require no study.