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Quotes About Friendship

Worthy Timon,-- TIMON Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.
~ William Shakespeare
Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and death their gain! Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.
~ William Shakespeare
Dostluk s?caktan soÄŸuÄŸa böyle geçer iÅŸte. Dikkat et, hep böyle olur, Lucilius. Sevgi tükenip bezginliÄŸe yüz tuttu mu, Zoraki nezaket gösterileri baÅŸlar. Aç?k yürekli, candan baÄŸl? bir insan gösteriÅŸ yapmaz.
~ William Shakespeare
Or to be naked with her friend in bed An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
~ William Shakespeare
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities
~ William Shakespeare
And so you see, dear reader, the death of my friend Sophie forced me to realize that the whole universe is one big concentration camp run by God -- the biggest Nazi of them all! So slavery in Virginia wasn't all that bad. And it was really God's fault anyway. Pretty good tragic insight there. Think I'll crank some Bellamy Brothers and get loaded!
~ William Styron
Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! What lying epitaphs they make over the corpse of love! What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! Most of us have got or written drawers full of them. They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun
~ William Thackeray
If you talked to your friends the way you talk to yourself, you wouldn't have any.
~ William Ury
Instead of telling your friend, "I'm not going with you to the game," say, "I'll catch you after the game." In other words, put your focus on the positive while creating the boundary you need.
~ William Ury
Our ability to relax and let life flow naturally depends on how solidly anchored we feel in a friendly world. If we can reframe our picture of life and find satisfaction from within, then we will be more willing to let go of our resentments about the past and our anxieties about the future. Reframing allows us to relax and to accept life just as it is.
~ William Ury
William W. Johnstone
~ Unknown
I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.
~ Wilson Rawls
It's hard for a man to stand and watch an old hound fight against such odds, especially if that man has memories in his heart like I had in mine. I had seen the time when an old hound like that had given his life so that I might life.
~ Wilson Rawls
Grandpa," I asked, "what good's it going to do us, knowing his name?" "It might do a lot of good," Grandpa said. "This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do." "Make friends with him!" I said. "Grandpa, I don't
~ Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows taps into the wellspring that runs deep in all of us as we fall in step with a boy and his dogs and, piece by piece, our own stories unfold.
~ Wilson Rawls
Wilson Rawls
~ Unknown
The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
~ Wilt Chamberlain
Married people NEVER did right by their friends (make that: DO right, I've still never seen evidence to the contrary; the only couples a single can deal with are couples you met already encoupled).
~ Unknown
Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red, And sing brave songs of gallant love and true, Wearing soft robes of emerald and blue, And dance, as I your dances oft have led, And laugh, as I have often laughed with you - And be most merry - after I am dead.
~ Winifred Holtby
You said that death was not the end; most true. Death was not stronger than my love for you. But since sweet love so lightly gives, my friend, We are not dead, and yet - this is the end.
~ Winifred Holtby
This is one reason Eugene was so (frustratingly) reluctant to dispense advice, why he so detested celebrity: he knew these postures of the ego-driven expert were lies and illusions. And this is why Eugene would rather pray with someone than argue theology, why he'd be eager for a call from his neighbor while letting prominent figures go to his answering machine: friendship (with God and one another) is real.
~ Unknown
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.
~ Winston Churchill
He suddenly found that the thing he had set out to prove had proved something quite different. Human nature had outmaneuvered him. For if she would not desert a friend, neither could he. •
~ Winston Graham
I want the home about me: candles burning, curtains drawn, warmth, tea, friendship, love.
~ Winston Graham