Quotes About Friendship

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.

With friends and gay companions round them, thenMen boldly speak and have the hearts of men;Who, with opponents seated, miss the aidOf kind applauding looks, and grow afraid.

Who comes? - Approach! - 'tis kindly done: - My learn'd physician, and a friend, Their pleasures quit, to visit one

But I had no gift for making friends, although I was often attracted by people the very opposite of myself; especially by little, clever, quick, but not too familiar men; but even if they were disposed to make advances, a miserable shyness and stiffness of manner on my part, that I could not help, would raise a barrier of ice between us.

To the same question a 78-year-old Study member replied, "All the many plans for the day. I love life and all I do. I love the out of doors…. It is a joy to be alive and living with my best friend." He was referring to his wife of fifty years with whom his sex life was still "very satisfying.

Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

I grew up in Central Illinois, midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made a historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinal fans and grew up happy and liberal, and I became a Cub fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

I had a son in 1976. When I went to Europe, I met an Italian and we became friends. We would talk about what we would tell our families to do if the balloon went up. The conversation -- strange and perhaps pathological as it was -- bound us together. It was not war, it was not peace, but it was a place in the mind where the preparation for war and the anxiety that it generated created strange forms, such as plans for the movement of children in order to avoid a nuclear holocaust.

the same people who are taking this approach to any idea of sending an American accused to a court in the Hague are the very people demanding that my friend must be sent by Britain to the United States to disappear for the rest of his life for publishing documents which revealed war crimes.

Some of you know me. Some of you have seen me fight and some of you are my friends. Have your vote. But know this: if you come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him, I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake. My aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die.

Society frowned on killing your best friend. In this case, it would just have to make an exception.

Friendships built on lies never lasted.

To answer your question, yes, you may kiss my ass. Normally I prefer to maintain my personal space, but you're a Friend of the Pack and your services have proven useful once or twice. I strive to accommodate the wishes of persons friendly to my people. My only question is, would your kissing my ass be obeisance, grooming, or foreplay?

What can I do for you?" Cookie narrowed his eyes into sly slits. "I have not seen you for so long. I miss my dear friends. I have come to spend time with you." "So Clan Nuan wants to expand its business to the Seven Star Dominion." Cookie's eyes widened in shock. He clasped his hands to his furry chest. "How could we possibly, even if we wanted to? That's Clan Sai territory. I am simply here on vacation. I work too hard. So hard.

The responsible thing to do, the Head of the House thing to do, would be to send her on her way. This wasn't our fight and there was no profit to be made here. We were an emerging House, and we had neither the financial resources nor the manpower of MII. If I helped her, I would be putting all of us in danger. But she was a friend. She'd kept us all from dying at Nevada's wedding, and when I looked at her, my chest hurt.