Quotes About Friendship

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Love me, love my dog.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

Friendship, mercy, gladness, and indifference, being thought of in regard to subjects, happy, unhappy, good, and evil respectively, pacify the Chitta. We must have these four sorts of ideas. We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful towards those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent.