Quotes About Friendship

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

The only ship that never sinks is a true friendship

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.