Friendship Quotes - Page 86

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than one to find Upon whose breast thou may'st repose the secrets of thy mind

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.

Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.

I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

When you need a friend most is when no one is cheering.

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.

The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.