Quotes about friends
friendship best-friend sweet
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran
friendship real-friends needs
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
friendship laughter true-friend
In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.
friendship grieving hiking
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
friendship real-friends purpose
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
friendship heart grieving
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
friendship best-friend real-friends
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
friendship best-friend real-friends
Your friend is your needs answered.
friends believe men
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail. Jonathan Swift
friendship two feelings
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
friendship years age
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
friendship not-friends difficult
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
friends enemy misfortunes
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
friendship dog cat
There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house. Napoleon Bonaparte
friendship men favors
The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
friendship names
Friendship is but a name. I love no one.
friends faithful deities
A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.
friendship elude-us elude-you
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. Norman Maclean
friendship happiness heart
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Orison Swett Marden
friendship enemy few-friends
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. Omar Khayyam
friendship sweet real-friends
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes
friendship relationship courtesy
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
friendship best-friend sweet
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
friendship real-friends dating
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
friendship strong beloved
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
friendship sweet rose
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
friendship beautiful findings
There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another. Olive Schreiner
friendship inspiring funny-best-friend
No friendship is an accident. O. Henry
friendship letting-go art
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Octavia Butler
friendship growing-up get-well
When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up. Michael Buble
friends running strong
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves. Merle Shain
friendship rooms bars
We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine. Merle Haggard
friendship true-friend tonight
The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.