Quotes on Friendship

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear _x000D_ Into the Avon, Avon to the tide _x000D_ Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, _x000D_ Into main ocean they, this deed accursed _x000D_ An emblem yields to friends and enemies _x000D_ How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified _x000D_ By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

They love least that let men know their loves.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.