Quotes on Friendship

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.