Friendship Quotes - Page 52

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need