Friendship Quotes - Page 76

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I love you and I'm here for you.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

One can find traces of every life in each life.