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Friendship Quotes
"Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love."
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"You'd be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't."
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"True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them."
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"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."
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"Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines."
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"I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them."
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"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."
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"It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at 'our favorite spot,' and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me."
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"Frankly, the only good people who I know are dogs."
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"Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones."
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"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
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"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
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"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."
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"An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, -"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."
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"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
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"There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect."
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"Good friends are divine instruments."
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"They make friends, they laugh, they shareThey stay in touch, they care."
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"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.'True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
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"You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'"
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"You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone."
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"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."
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"Grover: It's a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that's because he's laughing at me."
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"Friendship is the grease of life."
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
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"It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking."
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"And, corny as it may sound, I do cherish the bond between me and the audience, the minority that follows my stuff and always makes me glad it's us against the world."
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"You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you."
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"I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach."
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"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
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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 actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday."
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"Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders pressed against the middle of his back."I should be friends with taller people," Grimm panted."Bite your tongue, old boy, or I'll hack apart your ankles."
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"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
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"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
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"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
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"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
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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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"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
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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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"Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended."
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"All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper, we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves."
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"Friends hurt friends. They don't mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love."
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"And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'."
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"Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie."
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"Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others; his attachment to Kafka was warm and disinterested. The only problem was his artistic orientation: a man of ideas, he knew nothing of the passion for form; his novels (he wrote twenty of them) are sadly conventional; and above all: he understood nothing at all about modern art.Why, despite all this, was Kafka so fond of him? What about you-do you stop being fond of your best friend because he has a compulsion to write bad verse?"
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