Quotes on Friendship

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.