What Is Friendship Quotes

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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.

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

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.

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.

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

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.

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.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos Aires. It was known. Also her books are known.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Your wealth is where your friends are

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

Friendship is more important than truth.

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.