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Friendship Quotes
"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."
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"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
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"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."
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"But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false."
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"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
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"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
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"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
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"Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had 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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"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."
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"I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not."
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"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
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"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."
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"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."
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"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."
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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."
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"Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions."
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"Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is."
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"Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate."
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
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"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death."
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"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."
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"I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends."
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"Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing."
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"I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real."
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"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
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"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
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"It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship."
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"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."
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"Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men."
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"He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses."
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"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
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"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
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"With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend."
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"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
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"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives."
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"Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line."
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"Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent."
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"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."
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"You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe."
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"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
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"Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses."
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"My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them."
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"Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others."
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