Quotes on Friendship

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.