Friendship Quotes - Page 38

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship