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Quotes About 'friendship'

» Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

» Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

» What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

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

» It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

» 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.

» The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

» Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

» When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

» Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

» Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

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

» All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

» All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

» Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

» Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

» I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

» It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

» One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

» Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

» In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

» And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

» The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

» One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

» I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

» They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

» To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

» If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

» Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

» Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practises untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

» The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Co-operation which needs consideration is a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

» A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

» Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

» Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

» Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

» The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

» We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

» Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

» Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

» Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

» Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.

» Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

» The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

» In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

» I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

» That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

» The friendship that can cease has never been real.

» There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

» At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.

» Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

» True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

» True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

» It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

» A hedge between keeps friendship green.

» It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

» Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

» Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

» Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

» Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

» I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

» The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

» There’s a miracle of friendship that
dwells within the heart
And you don’t know how it happens
or where it gets its start
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
Any you realize that friendship
Is God’s most perfect gift.

» Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

» Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

» Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

» Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

» The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

» A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

» When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

» The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

» What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

» A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

» She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

» Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belize and the Republic of China in 1989, Taiwan has been good to Belize. Over the years, the ties of friendship have been strengthened through a dynamic technical agricultural mission and economic cooperation in the housing and infrastructural development, trade, investment and tourism promotion.

» The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

» Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

» To all of our friends in Irish-America and beyond, we owe an enormous debt of gratitude. Whenever we needed your friendship and encouragement, you were there for us.

» Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

» The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

» Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!

» Mindful of his own dignity, he is mindful of others', because he wishes to safeguard what is in fact the essence of man's value, no one is replacable. It is in this way, in this solitude, that he finds friendship and a friendly society, rather than the flock or the herd.

» As a Muslim, I know that my faith reveres all monotheistic religions. It completes God's message to mankind to live together in friendship and dignity, at a time when Islam, Christianity and Judaism, in many parts of the world, present an image which is totally alien to the spirit in which they were meant: the teachings of God in terms of tolerance and mutual respect.

» It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

» I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

» Love is friendship set on fire.

» Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

» True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

» Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

» Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

» Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

» I invite you, if your parents will let you, to come to our country, the best time being this summer. You will find out about our country, meet with your contemporaries, visit an international children's camp - Artek - on the sea. And see for yourself: in the Soviet Union - everyone is for peace and friendship among peoples.

» False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

» Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

» A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

» A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

» It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

» Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

» Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

» The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

» Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

» Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake.

» A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

» Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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