Friendship Quotes - Page 46

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

A friend is a second self.