Quotes about friendship
friendship hate names
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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? Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship long majestic-beauty
Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship
Friendship buys friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship together way
Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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? Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship good-morning thank-you
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship real-friends greatness
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship relationship patience
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship best-friend positive
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
friendship hands cute-friend
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Les Brown
friendship cute relationship
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. Lee Iacocca
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. Thomas Aquinas
friendship philosophical real-friends
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Thomas Aquinas
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship soulmate healing
We must be our own before we can be another's. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship men busy
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship book needs
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship order revelations
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.... Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship
We never touch but at points. Ralph Waldo Emerson