Friendship Quotes - Page 33

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

True friendship can exist only between equals.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.