Quotes about friends
friendship friends joy
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship sex wall
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
friendship league no-friends
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
friendship friends treats
Treat your friend as a spectacle.
friendship book names
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
friendship sleep yield
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.
friendship children future
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
friendship hope heart
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
friendship memories blessing
If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.
friendship men two
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
friendship sex stars
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.
friends ocean ideas
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
friends thinking two
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.
friends dark friendly
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
friends teach my-friends
Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
friends people joy
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
friendship two world
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
friendship hate names
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
friendship encouragement destiny
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
friendship long majestic-beauty
Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
friendship
Friendship buys friendship.
friends passion comedian
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
friends fate sky
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
friends powerful doe
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.
friendship together way
Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
friendship real care
We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
friendship good-morning thank-you
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
friendship real men
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
friendship real-friends greatness
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
friendship relationship patience
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
friendship best-friend positive
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
friendship occasional plain-speaking
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having. Lin Yutang
friendship country two
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. Li Peng