Friendship Quotes - Page 44

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of their lives with each other. See men once we become friends with another man we may never say another word to him, unless there's valuable information that needs to be exchanged. Things like "Hey Jim, your shirt's on fire."

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.