Friendship Quotes - Page 96

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

You got a way with words, you keep me smiling, even when it hurts.

You gave me faith to find my dreams, you'll never know just what that means.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.

[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up.