Quotes About Friendship

the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.

Ser sociable es muy arriesgado, incluso fatal, porque supone estar en contacto con personas, la mayor parte de las cuales son aburridas, perversas o ignorantes, y sólo lo buscan a uno porque no soportan su propia compañía. La mayor parte se aburren a sí mismos y reciben a los demás no como a verdaderos amigos, sino como una distracción...

Cuanto más viejo me hago más propenso a creer que si el amor ha de juzgarse por sus efectos visibles, se parece más al odio que a la amistad.

Por isso é muito melhor não ter amigos, desde que se tenha força de carácter suficiente para passar sem eles. No fim, os amigos acabam sempre por revelar-se um incómodo de uma maneira ou de outra. Mas, se tens de os ter, então deixa-os em paz e aceita que cada um tem o direito de existir de acordo com o seu próprio carácter, seja ele qual for.

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No. no I didn't mean anything by it. I was just wondering why you called him June Bug. That's all." "That's what everyone calls him." They slowed where the smaller kids could keep up and after a good mile and a half, stopped and sat on the river bank resting. After getting a drink of water, they started on. An almost un-audible sound vibrated up the river.

Getting Steve to open up was a lot like opening a jar of martini olives. It helps if you bang on his lid a few times.

A Friend Will Help You Move. A Real Friend Will Help You Move a Body.

The surest way to get rid of a bore is to lend money to him.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

When we were kids we always used to say, 'Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.' When John died, I thought, 'Well, maybe we'll get a message,' because I know he knew the deal. I haven't had a message from John.

I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

How far was that? On March 1 he told us the chest x-ray looked clear, except for a shadow that was probably the pulmonary artery, but he was playing safe and ordering a CAT scan to make sure it wasn't a lymph node. Roger and I had lunch that day at the hospital cafeteria, in the prison-yard court on plastic chairs under a lowering sky. Roger said how glad he

unpossessive. Before his parents left, Al once again paid him the highest compliment about his relationship with me. "You boys are the best friends I've ever seen," he said. "You're like Damon and Pythias." It's a long way for a man to come who couldn't look me in the face for a year after Roger finally told him he was gay. A century

Wouldn't you like right now to last forever?' Roger said as we lolled on the picnic slope. The afterglow of it lasted for days, for we bragged about it as if we'd just ascended K-2.

If you're going to get a card for somebody you don't really care about, they should make cards that say that. "You're a friend of my wife's cousin–the hell with you." "We hardly know you. What did you expect, cash?"

History may always become a kind of evasion of the search for truth. It is always possible to hide behind history so as to affirm nothing on one's own account...Ultimately, the skeptical historian no longer searches for anything, and the dogmatic philosopher has nothing but enemies or students but never friends.

Gin was smart enough to know if she had limited the party to just her girlfriends, it would be a very small one: namely her and Sandy. It's not that the girls at school didn't like Gin. It was more like they tolerated her. Not that Gin wasted any energy trying to be friends.

Okay, he thinks, perhaps it's time for everybody to move on; nothing lasts forever, it's part of the physics of friendships, alliances, whatever it might be they perpetrated for a while among themselves.

Do you think treachery begins in the deed, my friend?

Cale, I am the Second of Mask. We are more than comrades, more than friends. I am at your shoulder through whatever comes. Now … be the First.

Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.