Quotes on Friendship

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.