My Friendship Quotes
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.
I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.
We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.