Quotes on Friendship

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.