Quotes on Friendship

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.

Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Your friend is your needs answered.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.