Friendship Quotes - Page 49

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.