Friendship Quotes - Page 55

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,-- There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Friendship? Yes Please.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.