Quotes about friendship
friendship pick-me-up needs
You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day. Sarah McLachlan
friendship angel questions-asked
You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
friendship reflection men
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
friendship two maids
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
friendship positive looks
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson
friendship years long
To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
friendship pleasure higher
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
friendship love-is like-love
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.
friendship old-friends making-friends
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett
friendship inspiring goodbye
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving
friendship valentines-day divorce
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Voltaire
friendship real-friends men
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
friendship song issues
The friends that have I do it wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.
friendship needs gone
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
friendship death women
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
friendship true-friend real
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
friendship sun righteousness
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. Walter Savage Landor
friendship precious-stones broken
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.
friendship virtue
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
friendship girl hatred
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
friendship art
Art thou a friend to Roderick? Walter Scott
friendship doe attrition
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
friendship true-friend clouds
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
friendship cutting people
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. Walter Dean Myers
friendship secret foe
Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends. Winston Churchill
friendship running dog
Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.
friendship book writing
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.
friendship real eulogy
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. William Rotsler
friendship self eternity
You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
friendship dog blessing
To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair. William Lyon Phelps
friendship patience cousin
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson
friendship hands two-friends
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine
friendship dog eye
One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."