Quotes about friends
friendship expression imperfection
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections. Gilbert K. Chesterton
friendship father hate
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots. Gilbert K. Chesterton
friendship men soul
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness. Gilbert K. Chesterton
friendship two individuality
. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million. Gilbert K. Chesterton
friendship different different-things
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . . Gilbert K. Chesterton
friendship men two
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship. Gilbert K. Chesterton
friendship men long
Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. John Dryden
friends no-friends wretched
The wretched have no friends. John Dryden
friendship people musical
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself. John Mayall
friendship names people
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
friendship friends fall
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection. John Lyly
friendship cheerful brightness
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. John Lubbock
friendship race together
You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race. John Lennon
friendship jeans teens
You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map. John Lennon
friendship best-friend song
I get by with a little help from my friends. John Lennon
friendship three lost
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. Johann Kaspar Lavater
friendship enmity dread
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. Johann Kaspar Lavater
friendship pleasure share
What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory- Johanna Lindsey
friendship friends danger
In comradeship is danger countered best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
friendship trying found
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
friendship white hair
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
friends faults individual
Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
friendship old-friends strange
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
friendship real distance
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
friendship thinking people
Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself. Jo Coudert
friendship friends-or-friendship greatest healing therapy
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
friendship prayer quotes terms
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
friendship soul half
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. Francois Fenelon
friends real joy
Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day. Francois Fenelon
friendship real adversity
Adversity does teach who your real friends are. Lois McMaster Bujold
friendship people resistance
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. Lois McMaster Bujold
friendship silence enemy
Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies Lisa Vanderpump
friends childhood childhood-friend
There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace. Lisa Whelchel