Friendship Quotes - Page 50

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

A road to a friend's house is never long.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Let us be kinder to one another.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

A fav'rite has no friend!

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.