Quotes about Friendship
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."
A brief candle; both ends burning An endless mile; a bus wheel turning A friend to share the lonesome times A handshake and a sip of wine So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen -- A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs -- between --
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
We need not think alike to love alike.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
[W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor 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.
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And you do it!
The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend."
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
This is my beloved and this is my friend.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
The bird a nest.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.\
A brief candle; both ends burning An endless mile; a bus wheel turning A friend to share the lonesome times A handshake and a sip of wine So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen -- A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs -- between --
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
We need not think alike to love alike.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
[W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor 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.
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And you do it!
The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend.\
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?\
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
This is my beloved and this is my friend.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
The bird a nest.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
True friends stab you in the front.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.