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Friendship Quotes
"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."
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"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."
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"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
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"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!"
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"A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever."
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"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy."
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"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."
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"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
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"I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse."
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"Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing."
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"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."
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"Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used."
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"And say my glory was I had such friends."
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"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
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"Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed."
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"I give and accept waves of welcome. I attract wonderful, life-minded friends who enrich my life."
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"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives."
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"I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself."
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"An incinerator is a writer's best friend."
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"Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot."
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"I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there."
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"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."
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"He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one."
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"It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host."
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"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
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"I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet."
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"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."
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"Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time."
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"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."
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"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
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"The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own."
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"Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends."
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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
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"Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people."
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"For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive."
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"I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls."
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"The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship."
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"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."
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"When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had."
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"It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend."
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"I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points."
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"It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them."
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"My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie."
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"One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book."
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