Quotes about friends
friendship hurt heart
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. Mark Twain
friendship true-friend enemy
You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
friendship rocks my-best-friend
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend. Christina Perri
friendship happy-life giving
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom. Harry Emerson Fosdick
friendship jesus men
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
friendship best-friend thank-you
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. Frances Farmer
friends kindness thinking
It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream. Fran Lebowitz
friends responsibility thinking
for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.
friendship jail affair
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
friendship jobs children
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed ...
friendship best-friend intimate-relationships
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few. George Washington
friendship friendly answers
Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
friendship may covenant
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.
friendship letters study
Letters of friendship require no study.
friendship true-friend 4th-of-july
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
friendship thinking convenience
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
friendship sticks youth
[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.
friendship true-friend real
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
friendship best-friend confidence
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
friendship buddhist men
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. George Santayana
friendship world
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
friendship people mind
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
friendship sight giving
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.
friendship true-love love-you
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
friendship sex wedding-anniversary
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Friedrich Nietzsche
friendship writing spirit
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
friendship lost-love hate
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
friendship joy suffering
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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
friendship ties together
The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.
friendship eye two
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two. Norman Douglas
friends greatness numbers
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them. Norm MacDonald
friends adversity prosperity
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.