Quotes about friends
friends men law
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God. Miguel de Cervantes
friendship art thee
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes
friendship real space
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation. John Newton
friendship love-is sight
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible. John Muir
friends breasts stills
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. John Webster
friends track parent
Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do. John Walters
friendship dog intelligent
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine? John Steinbeck
friendship dog cat
Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility. John Steinbeck
friendship best-friend fall
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up. John Steinbeck
friendship book
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. John Steinbeck
friendship
You don't bring me anything but down. Sheryl Crow
friendship pledge
Once you pledge, don't hedge. Nikita Khrushchev
friendship praise advise
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
friends real eye
The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone. Nicolas Chamfort
friendship
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. Nicolas Chamfort
friends real taken
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. Nicholson Baker
friendship mom sacrifice
My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. Norah Jones
friendship important watches
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is. Nora Ephron
friendship house may
May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends. Myrtle Reed
friendship my-best-friend married
I'm married to my best friend! Miranda Lambert
friendship hands order
Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees. Miranda July
friendship believe real-friends
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin
friends together path
No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original. John Wozniak
friends virginia discipline
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. John Woolman
friendship nice two
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided. John Wooden
friendship art book
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. John Wooden
friendship strong cheer
I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me. John Quincy Adams
friends character yarn
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends. Meg Tilly
friendship ears prerequisites
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. Maya Angelou
friendship funny-friend waiting
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face. Maya Angelou
friends luxury world
Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence. Max von Sydow
friendship running thinking
A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole. Max de Pree
friendship dog alliances
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us. Max de Pree