Quotes About Friendship

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

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

When man to man shall be a friend and brother.

The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.

God befriend us, as our cause is just!

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Two's a company, three's a crowd.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe; the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.

For mem'ry has painted this perfect day. With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to,' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No, it is better not', he said, 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

You're only a dog, old fellow; a dog, and you've had your day; But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you alway.

The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog.

Gentlemen of die Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

He is . . . like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.