Friendship Quotes - Page 81

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.