Friendship Quotes - Page 11
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
"The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.6074, e-artnow
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81
"The Marquis of Lossie".
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America
"Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you
"Shot for Me". Song by Drake, 2011.
Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?
"Auld Lang Syne" l. 1 (1796). JamesWatson, Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems (1711), contains a ballad beginning: "Should old acquaintance be forgot, / And never thought upon, / The flames of love extinguished, / And freely past and gone? / Is thy kind heart now grown so cold / In that loving breast of thine, / That thou canst never once reflect / On old-long-syne?"
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39
"Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau" by A. R. Orage, The Century Magazine, November 1924.
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.55, RH Childrens Books