Friendship Quotes - Page 77

My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

True friendship is a promise you keep forever.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?