My Friendship Quotes
Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.
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.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
You cannot, ever, give up on a friend who is close to giving up on themselves
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
In the end, what will hurt us the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
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.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.