Friendship Quotes - Page 28

You and I are more than friends. We're like a really small gang.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.

I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

These violent delights have violent ends.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.