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Friendship Quotes
"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."
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"If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
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"Each blooming flower breathe an open soul of nature's gratitude. Every blooming friendship is an opening of both heart and mind to touch a unique growth of one's soul. Jolly good friends make you bloom with joy even on a coldest winter as you share your common interests in life, in work, in art, with people and of your passion. Treasure your true friends and feel blessed in your life to have them."
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"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
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"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"Sage. He laughed. "I'm into anything, so long as you're with me."
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"For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do."
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"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."
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"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."
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"Between friends there is no need of justice."
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"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."
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"You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself."
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
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"We get along like a house on fire these days."
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"We'll just sit here," said Barney, "and if we think of anything worth while saying we'll say it. Otherwise, not. Don't imagine you're bound to talk to me.""John Foster says," quoted Valancy, "'If you can sit in silencewith a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, youand that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'llnever be and you need not waste time in trying.'""Evidently John Foster says a sensible thing once in a while,"conceded Barney."
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"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
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"Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."
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"It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort."
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"Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples."
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
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"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
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"The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship."
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"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects."
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"It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise."
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"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"All lasting business is built on friendship."
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"Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
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"You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities."
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"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
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"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
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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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"It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like."
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"I have friends who read my books in Greek."
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"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter."
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"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."
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"I'm thinking it would be very easy to love you. And easier to call you my friend."
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"We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it."
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"In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded - self-confident. Something she wasn't."
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"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
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"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."
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