Quotes About Friendship

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

When Hiro first saw this place, ten years ago, the monorail hadn't been written yet; he and his buddies had to write car and motorcycle software in order to get around. They would take their software out and race it in the black desert of the electronic night.

It's time to go, Vitaly says. You're telling me it's time to go? I've been waiting for you to wake up for an hour. As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine. Did you win your sword fight? Of course I won the fucking sword fight, Hiro says. I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world. And you wrote the software. Yeah. That, too, Hiro says.

WITH CNÁN'S HELP, Raphael dressed the knife wound on Haakon's hip. Raphael moved stiffly, and Haakon eventually saw why. A tiny stub of a broken arrow protruded from Raphael's back. When Raphael finished with Haakon, Cnán said something about the arrow.

Only because Rachel knows him," I said. "Being a den-mother to wayward witches is not in my job description, and I will not play along if it requires armed men in my living room.

Daniel kept being cruel to Roger, trying to make him go away, but Roger took it as honesty, implying profound friendship.

She in turn introduced Jules to the other members of her group, including Fenna, who smiled at Jules with a light in her eyes that made Saskia wonder if they'd somehow crossed paths with each other in the past and were old friends. But that wasn't it. They were new friends. They stuck to each other like magnets that have been brought too close together. They ceased to be aware of the existence of other humans.

Hackworth was alone and separate from all humanity, a feeling he had grown up with, like a childhood friend living next door.

This is why he hates business. He wants to tell everyone everything. He wants to make friends with people.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.