Quotes on About Friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.