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Friendship Quotes
"The love between Uncle Dees and Roger was every bit as enduring as it had been immediate. They were never to be seen apart, man and dog, not since the moment of their introduction. Very quickly after their arrival in Amsterdam four years earlier, Roger had given Alma to understand that he was no longer her dog--that, in fact, he had never been her dog, nor had he ever been Ambrose's dog, but that he had been Dees' dog all along, by force of pure and plain destiny. The fact that Roger was born in distant Tahiti, whereas Dees van Devender resided in Holland, had been the result, Roger appeared to believe, of an unfortunate clerical error, now thankfully rectified."
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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
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"A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed."
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"Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends."
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"Be the person you would want to be friends with."
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"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."
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"It is better to have just one friend that adds value to your life than having a million friends that add no value to your life."
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"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
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"They make friends, they laugh, they shareThey stay in touch, they care."
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"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."
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"Continuously, in commemoration of the FriendWe drank wine, even before the creation of the vine."
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"Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession."
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"As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.People always suddenly miss you more once they see how much happier you are without them.Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass."
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"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."
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"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
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"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
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"Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch."
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"Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again."
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"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
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"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
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"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator."
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"The value of friendship is based on a solid underline friendship."
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
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"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
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"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."
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"Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it."
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"He didn't have many friends, but he valued his friendship with Angel. She was kind and giving and one of the few women who didn't look at him like he was an un-caged tiger."
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"Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!"
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"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
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"I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life."
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"Annabeth Thalia and I hadn't seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom. She talks more when she's nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall it was getting dark and she'd told Annabeth and Thalia every embarrassing baby story there was to tell about me."
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"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
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"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
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"Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument."
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"Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out."
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"His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!"
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"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."
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"But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak."
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"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
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"Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep."
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"A true friend will never stand in your allotted beam of light. They will get out of the way so you can grow, but they'll stay nearby in case you need what they can offer."
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"Seeing the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) in everyone is itself an intent of friendship towards the entire world."
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"Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!"
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
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"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."
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"I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect."
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