My Friendship Quotes
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.
Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.
A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
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 typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Every girl needs a bestfriend to help her laugh when she thinks she'll never smile again
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.
A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place.
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene.
Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
