Quotes on New Friends

Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.