Friendship Quotes - Page 21

When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

Never deceive a friend.

For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.