Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bonds That Tie - Page 42
Celebrate the bonds of friendship with our handpicked quotes. Cherish and appreciate your friends through timeless words. Page 42 provides more friendship quotes.
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.Collection: Friendship
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.Collection: Friendship
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.Collection: Friendship
Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.Collection: Friendship
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.Collection: Friendship
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.Collection: Friendship
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.Collection: Friendship
For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .Collection: Friendship
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.Collection: Friendship
Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.Collection: Friendship
I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.Collection: Friendship
How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.Collection: Friendship
I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.Collection: Friendship
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.Collection: Friendship
I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.Collection: Friendship
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.Collection: Friendship
People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.Collection: Friendship
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grininCollection: Friendship
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!Collection: Friendship
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhereCollection: Friendship
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.Collection: Friendship
There ought to be a law about you coming around.Collection: Friendship
The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.Collection: Friendship
I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.Collection: Friendship
Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.Collection: Friendship
She's been there for me in a lot of ways, and she really is just the most dependable and loyal and funny as all get out. I mean, she just cracks me up. Constantly.Collection: Friendship
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.Collection: Friendship
These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.Collection: Friendship
Female friendships are of rapid growth.Collection: Friendship
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Friendship
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.Collection: Friendship
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.Collection: Friendship
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.Collection: Friendship
A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?Collection: Friendship
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.Collection: Friendship
If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.Collection: Friendship
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.Collection: Friendship
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.Collection: Friendship
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.Collection: Friendship
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.Collection: Friendship
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.Collection: Friendship
There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.Collection: Friendship
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.Collection: Friendship
Keep your friendships in repair.Collection: Friendship
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.Collection: Friendship
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.Collection: Friendship