Friendship Quotes - Page 102

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.

We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality.

We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

Who discreetly whispers you forgot to zip up your pants? You babe, you're my bestest friend.

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

It's a drought in your brain.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

Real friendship is a slow grower.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Frienship is eros...without wings

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.