Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bonds That Tie - Page 29
Celebrate the bonds of friendship with our handpicked quotes. Cherish and appreciate your friends through timeless words. Page 29 provides more friendship quotes.
We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.Collection: Friendship
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.Collection: Friendship
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.Collection: Friendship
For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.Collection: Friendship
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.Collection: Friendship
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.Collection: Friendship
A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.Collection: Friendship
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.Collection: Friendship
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.Collection: Friendship
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.Collection: Friendship
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.Collection: Friendship
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.Collection: Friendship
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.Collection: Friendship
Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.Collection: Friendship
I don't trust him. We're friends.Collection: Friendship
Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.Collection: Friendship
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.Collection: Friendship
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.Collection: Friendship
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.Collection: Friendship
Equals make the best friends.Collection: Friendship
If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?Collection: Friendship
A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.Collection: Friendship
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.Collection: Friendship
Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.Collection: Friendship
The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Friendship
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.Collection: Friendship
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.Collection: Friendship
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.Collection: Friendship
[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.Collection: Friendship
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.Collection: Friendship
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.Collection: Friendship
I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.Collection: Friendship
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.Collection: Friendship
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.Collection: Friendship
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.Collection: Friendship
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.Collection: Friendship
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.Collection: Friendship
You got a way with words, you keep me smiling, even when it hurts.Collection: Friendship
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?Collection: Friendship
But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.Collection: Friendship
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.Collection: Friendship
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.Collection: Friendship
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.Collection: Friendship
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.Collection: Friendship