Friendship Quotes - Page 74

When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.