Quotes About Friendship

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

Kindness is a painless thing to give, and easy, a sop to those you do not need. Friendship and kindness have nought to do with this.' For a moment, the look in his eyes, as brilliant as an eagle's in the harsh inscrutability of his face, terrified her. 'I am not kind to the air I breathe, nor the food I eat, nor to you.

Once, when she was travelling to one of her convents, St. Teresa of Ávila was knocked off her donkey and fell into the mud, injuring her leg. "Lord," she said, "you couldn't have picked a worse time for this to happen. Why would you let this happen?" And the response in prayer that she heard was, "That is how I treat my friends." Teresa answered, "And that is why you have so few of them!

But to get to know God's friends is a very good way of "having" Him;

for mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us.

For, under the Lord, I owe it to such persons that I am not in hell; I was always very fond of asking them to commend me to God, and so I prevailed upon them to do so.

Their heart does not allow them to practise duplicity: if they see their friend straying from the road, or committing any faults, they will speak to her about it; they cannot allow themselves to do anything else.

It is certain that a man who has no need of anyone has many friends: in my own experience I have found this to be very true.