Friendship Quotes - Page 70

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

Your wealth is where your friends are

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.