Quotes About Friendship

I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

For me, as far as friendship goes, I think you truly get out of it, what you put into it.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

Friendship is identification and difference

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

I'll be your crying shoulder.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.