Friendship Quotes - Page 82

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.