Friendship Quotes - Page 97

During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult.

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability

To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Faith in friendship is the noblest part.

We all need a laugh and I guess you're just the one.

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

Friendship reaches well above all currency.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Enthusiasm is the thing which makes the world go round. Without its driving power, nothing worth doing has ever been done. Love, friendship, religion, altruism, devotion to career or hobby-all these, and most of the other good things of life, are forms of enthusiasm.