Quotes about friendship
friendship thinking prejudice
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others. William Hazlitt
friendship meat cold
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. William Hazlitt
friendship faults
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt
friendship true-friend fear
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt
friendship breakup promise
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. William Hazlitt
friendship embalming corpses
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt
friendship vanity amusement
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. William Hazlitt
friendship children ties
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children. William Hazlitt
friendship age youth
The youth is better than the old age of friendship. William Hazlitt
friendship true-friend hands
True friendship is self-love at second-hand. William Hazlitt
friendship substance gone
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. William Hazlitt
friendship feelings desire
In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing. Walter Raleigh
friendship wise art
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors. Walter Raleigh
friendship ties people
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. W. Somerset Maugham
friendship anniversary graduation
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. Yoko Ono
friendship struggle good-friend
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. William O. Douglas
friendship unions spirit
Friendship is the union of spirits... William Penn
friendship true-friend adventure
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn
friendship air friendship-love
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. William Penn
friendship men peaceful
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. William Makepeace Thackeray
friendship lonely loneliness
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God. William Makepeace Thackeray
friendship honest
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson
friendship friends-or-friendship sharing sweetness
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Khalil Gibran
friendship knew miss smile smiled yell
I'll miss his father-like guidance, his friendship and his yelling, because he didn't yell often but when he did, he sounded like Kermit the Frog. I'll miss his smile because he smiled with his whole face. You knew everything was going to be all right.
friendship goes gone
The club's long gone but the friendship goes on, Jim Davies
friendship book challenges
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet. Neale Donald Walsch
friendship believe done
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless. Neale Donald Walsch
friendship perspective doe
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated. Nancy Reagan
friendship memories flower
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. Milan Kundera
friendship uncles father
Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to. Margaret Whiting
friendship happiness happy
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
friendship party justice
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind. Joseph Addison
friendship friends wonder
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. Joseph Addison