friendship quotes

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

True friends stab you in the front.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

He who hath many friends hath none.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

My friends, there are no friends.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.