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Quotes About Friendship

It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
~ Alcott, Louisa May
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
~ Aldo Leopold
Puede afirmarse, sin caer en el infundio, que esta ilustre manga de atorrantes jamás consiguió entender el sentido de los Carnavales. Manuel Mandeb pensaba que las gentes se ponían contentas en virtud de algún suceso que todos conocían, menos él. Sus amigos padecían un desconcierto de la misma clase.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I've never been separated from you," said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint Thomas said, "A friendship that can end has never been a true friendship." In
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
È una cosa che succede: le grandi amicizie e i grandi legami dell'adolescenza sono difficili da riannodare in seguito, anche tra fratello e sorella. Ci rimasero malissimo tutti e due, ognuno ebbe l'impressione che l'altro fosse cambiato e che ci fosse qualcosa che non andava.
~ Alessandro Barbero
A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
There is a saying that, when it comes to friends, you should have very few, but to those few be very close.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Gentlemen now went out without their usual entourage, but they could be seen carrying a bag over their arms on their way to shop for food. When two friends ran into each other on the street, they would say hello from a distance, in hurried, wordless gestures.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Con l'idee donna Prassede si regolava come dicono che si deve far con gli amici: n'aveva poche; ma a quelle poche era molto affezionata. Tra le poche, ce n'era per disgrazia molte delle storte; e non eran quelle che le fossero men care.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
L'uomo che vuole offendere, o che teme, ogni momento, d'essere offeso, cerca naturalmente alleati e compagni.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
A man who wishes to hurt others, or who is constantly afraid of being hurt by them, naturally looks for allies and companions.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Né una lettera, né due, né un volume intiero potrebbero bastare per tutto quello che avrei da dirvi, per tutto quello che avrei da chiedervi; ed è necessario ch'io tenga viva sempre la speranza di rivedervi, di passare un po' di tempo con voi, perché il ricordo della vostra amicizia non sia triste e cocente per me nella misura stessa in cui mi è caro.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Quando dunque un amico si procura quella consolazione di deporre un segreto nel seno d'un altro, dà a costui la voglia di procurarsi la stessa consolazione anche lui.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Steve and Paul had a special bond with ice-creams.
~ Alex Anderson
Goodman, a friend of the Coens since he worked with them on their second movie, Raising Arizona, laughed about the scene where William Macy tried to escape out of a motel window, only to be dragged back inside by the cops. "Macy in his underwear," Goodman said, giggling. "That's our answer to everything," Ethan said. "You need a dramatic fall, put a character in his undies.
~ Alex Belth
Perhaps it is just very difficult to have more than a few close friends because these sorts of relationships build over a long time and lots of shared experiences. As my father always said, you only need six people to carry your coffin and, as I have got older, I have become ever more appreciative of that remark.
~ Alex Ferguson
Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!
~ Alex Flinn
Mr. Anderson:Well, maybe we all should call it a night. Congrats to the happy couples. Will there be wedding bells soon? SnowGirl:Definitely. I mean, if you help a guy kill a dwarf, he should marry you.
~ Alex Flinn
It's strange though. People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore, do you? It's just the way they look.
~ Alex Flinn
So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had." I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway.
~ Alex Flinn
I wish to go with you, not as man and wife, but merely as friends, travel companions, the sort of happy-go-lucky chums about whom rollicking old ballads of the road are written.
~ Alex Flinn
We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.
~ Alex Flinn
I remember how Talia got me to talk about the gardening thing. I've never told anyone else about that, but with this girl, I sort of feel like I can be myself without worrying about looking uncool. After all, she doesn't even know what "cool" is.
~ Alex Flinn