Friendship Quotes - Page 95

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these?

The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.

Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

That girl can barely spell her name.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.