Quotes About Friendship

After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend.

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and three dollar pantyhose that won't run.

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

I have learned that it is not what I have in my life but who I have in my life that counts.

When nights are long and friends are few, I sit alone and think of you. With a lonely heart and a silent tear, I long to hold you and have you near...

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you¦. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Short judgments make long friends.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.