Quotes About Friendship

Other and more powerful forms of association have existed, but the major moral and psychological influences on the individual's life have emanated from the family and local community and the church. Within such groups have been engendered the primary types of identification: affection, friendship, prestige, recognition. And within them also have been engendered or intensified the principal incentives of work, love, prayer, and devotion to freedom and order.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

Of all the people I've ever met; you're one of them!

The key to the success of this method is that each new prospect is visited by a salesperson armed with the name of a friend "who suggested I call on you." Turning the salesperson away under those circumstances is difficult; it's almost like rejecting the friend.

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.

I say nothing against friendship, for I have tasted the sweets of it, and I know nothing of love, having never myself experienced a touch of it, but I find that in the making of poetry love is the most useful of all the themes that a poet may play upon.

But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

I'm breathing . . . Are you breathing too? . . . It's nice, isn't it? It isn't difficult to keep alive, friends just don't -make trouble-or if you must make trouble, make the sort of trouble that's expected. Well, I don't need to tell you that. Good night. If we should bump into one another, recognize me

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.