Quotes about friends
friendship writing family-and-friends
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. Nathaniel Hawthorne
friendship nature intimate
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
friendship philosophical justice
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas
friendship relationship true-friend
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
friendship philosophical real-friends
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
friendship true-friend adversity
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. Theophrastus
friendship caring want
...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place. Terry Goodkind
friendship doe separation
Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. Tennessee Williams
friendship brother i-love-him
You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother. Ted Demme
friendship men half
A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him. Randolph Bourne
friendship should ceremony
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship best-friend positive
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
friendship soulmate healing
We must be our own before we can be another's.
friendship men busy
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
friendship family trust
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
friendship book needs
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
friendship country men
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.
friendship order revelations
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
friendship love-is games
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession....
friendship
We never touch but at points.
friendship book use
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
friendship death goodbye
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
friendship demand ability
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
friendship true-friend stupid
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
friendship want great-friend
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.
friendship weed house
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
friendship friends self
We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.
friendship patience
Keep your friendships in repair.
friendship echoes sides
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
friendship hurt way
You got a way with words, you keep me smiling, even when it hurts. Shania Twain
friendship beautiful art
Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
friends intellectual age
Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.
friendship cute-relationship sweet
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. Peter Ustinov