Quotes on Friendship

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

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

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

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

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

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

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.