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Quotes About Friendship

Men of Athens, I am grateful and I am your friend, but I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy
~ Plato
because he is just; moreover he is hated by his friends and acquaintance for refusing to serve them in unlawful ways.
~ Plato
Lo que no es ni malo ni bueno es, pues, amigo de lo bueno por [b] causa de lo malo y de lo odioso, y con vistas a un bien amigo.
~ Plato
Men of my age flock together; we are birds of a feather, as the old proverb says;
~ Plato
After a while the desire of self-preservation gathered them into cities; but when they were gathered together, having no art of government, they evil intreated one another, and were again in process of dispersion and destruction. Zeus feared that the entire race would be exterminated, and so he sent Hermes to them, bearing reverence and justice to be the ordering principles of cities and the bonds of friendship and conciliation.
~ Plato
Öyleyse dostum, insanlara yap?lan kötülük onlar? doÄŸruluktan uzaklaÅŸt?r?r
~ Platon
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~ Plautus
And that's another thing. What if I were to talk to Tanker, find out if he's happy at the Polonius Room, see if maybe he wants to come back? He was always such a key part of this kitchen. Rickey pointed a chocolate-smudged finger at Lenny. Don't you dare. If I decide I want to talk to him, I'll talk to him. I told you, I don't need you handling my business for me. I understand, Lenny said, making a mental note to call Tanker.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Nothing gazed around at the kids in the club. They were all so beautiful. He loved their choppy hairstyles, their costume jewelry, their ragged black or multicolored clothes. He loved the way they all somehow looked like him, and he wished he could make friends with every one of them.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
We also have friends among the railroad men, and they tell us that so far the Germans of the garrison haven't dared touch the pumpkins. They've blocked the line and have brought in a team of mine detectors from Cracow. They're more worried about the pumpkins than about the car you stole.
~ Primo Levi
Když Tv?j pÃ…â"¢ítel padne, nemáÅ¡ se radovat, ale ani mu nemáÅ¡ pomoct vstát.
~ Primo Levi
The things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me; I felt closer to the dead than the living, and felt guilty at being a man, because men had built Auschwitz, and Auschwitz had gulped down millions of human beings, and many of my friends, and a woman who was dear to my heart.
~ Primo Levi
He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He knows whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.
~ Primo Levi
Ma non era solo questo: come se un argine fosse franato, proprio in quell'ora in cui ogni minaccia sembrava venire meno, in cui la speranza di un ritorno alla vita cessava di essere pazzesca ero sopraffatto da un dolore nuovo e più vasto, prima sepolto ai margini della coscienza da altri più urgenti dolori: il dolore dell'esilio, della casa lontana, della solitudine, degli amici perduti, della giovinezza perduta, e dello stuolo di cadaveri intorno
~ Primo Levi
Strategy 10—Against Your Relationships He creates disruption and disunity within your circle of friends and within the shared community of the body of Christ (1 Tim. 2:8).
~ Priscilla Shirer
And I think that if you are lucky enough to give and receive love, then you can be happy in the face of suffering. I was talking to a friend about this and we decided that maybe heaven is just that...love. And that heaven exists on a day-to-day basis within people. When they give and receive love, that's a little slice of heaven.
~ Unknown
Well . . . maybe I can sneak out for a few minutes," Bird said, lowering his voice. And then Greg heard him shout to his mother: "It's no one, Ma! I'm talking to no one!" Boy, that's quick thinking! Greg thought sarcastically. He's a worse liar than I am. And then he heard Bird call to his mom: "I know I'm on the phone. But I'm not talking to anyone. It's only Greg." Thanks a lot, pal, Greg thought.
~ R.L. Stine
Vanessa," he murmured. I stared at him. I knew instantly what he meant. I had been thinking the same thing all along. Remembering the horrible moment we spilled Vanessa's groceries. "Yes," I agreed. "I didn't want to admit it. I didn't want to believe it. But Vanessa did this to us. Vanessa is BLUUUUCK BLUCCCK turning us into chickens." "Chicken chicken," he clucked.
~ R.L. Stine
Halloween?" Sabrina Mason asked. She moved her fork around in the bright yellow macaroni on her lunch tray but didn't take a bite. Carly Beth Caldwell sighed and shook her head. The overhead light on the lunchroom ceiling made her straight brown hair gleam. "I don't know. A witch, maybe." Sabrina's mouth dropped open. "You? A witch?" "Well, why not?" Carly Beth demanded
~ R.L. Stine
I don't think you're weird, Ari." Destiny dropped down on the edge of the bed and picked up the Anne Rice book. "I think it's cool that you're into…stuff.
~ R.L. Stine
Laughing together, the three of them headed downstairs to lunch.
~ R.L. Stine
It was a no-worms weekend," Todd told Danny over the phone after dinner on Sunday evening. "Way to go!" Danny replied enthusiastically. "Not a single worm," Todd told him, twisting the phone cord around his wrist.
~ R.L. Stine
My friend Chuck was supposed to help me coach the team. But he told Miss Curdy he had an after-school job. Do you know what his after-school job is? Going home and watching TV. - Steve Boswell
~ R.L. Stine
Claire. Wake up." She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane's shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn't realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael's part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn't moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice.
~ Rachel Caine