Quotes about friends
friendship real men
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson
friendship real-friends greatness
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
friendship relationship patience
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
friendship occasional plain-speaking
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having. Lin Yutang
friendship country two
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. Li Peng
friendship hands cute-friend
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Les Brown
friendship cute relationship
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. Lee Iacocca
friendship philosophical justice
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas
friends way gains
The way to gain a friend is to be one Jules Michelet
friends real ignorance
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. Percy Bysshe Shelley
friendship quirky roles
I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick. Joan Cusack
friendship relationship peace
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. Joan Baez
friends real joy
Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day. Francois Fenelon
friends freedom war
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. Lyndon B. Johnson
friendship appreciation heart
Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts. M. F. K. Fisher
friendship friends-or-friendship greatest healing therapy
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
friendship man
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue. Mencius
friendship soul enemy
The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send - Emily Dickinson
friends law president
What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president? Edward Bennett Williams
friends decision ego
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego. Eckhart Tolle
friendship heart stories
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
friends moving wife
God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me. Herschel Walker
friends father flower
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. Henry Williamson
friendship forgiveness war
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. Henry Ward Beecher
friendship relationship judging
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. Henry James
friendship our-world world
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. Henry Drummond
friendship men creating
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies. Henry Fielding
friendship fraud pious
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
friendship death goodbye
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
friendship pleasure highest
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
friendship three lost
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. Johann Kaspar Lavater
friendship enmity dread
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
friendship pleasure share
What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory- Johanna Lindsey