Quotes About Friendship

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

A great marriage is when there's understanding and friendship and not one which just demands for respect.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.

Getting married was the best thing Ive ever done. I married my best friend. I'm so lucky to get to be with him every day, and hes my protector. I feel so safe and happy and completed.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And...she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.