Quotes About Friendship

To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

Whilst he was very young, he was a soldier in the expedition against Potidaea, where Socrates lodged in the same tent with him, and stood next him in battle. Once there happened a sharp skirmish, in which they both behaved with signal bravery; but Alcibiades receiving a wound, Socrates threw himself before him to defend him, and beyond any question saved him and his arms from the enemy, and so in all justice might have challenged the prize of valor. But

L'amicizia è animale da compagnia, non da gregge.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

No necesito amigos que cambien cuando yo cambio y asientan cuando yo asiento. Mi sombra lo hace mucho mejor.

I don't need a friend who change when I change, who nod when I nod. This is something than my own shadow can do.

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...

You're just jealous," I said. "You can believe what you want," Aaron said. "But somebody's stealing from the Grimm Collection. They're either taking the objects or somehow sucking out their magic. Doc and theh librarians are going to find out who, and if Marc is in on it, you're going to be sorry you were helping him." "Marc isn't in on it. And I love this place too! We're all on the same side!" "I hope that's true," Aaron said.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you. "Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

We too must remain faithful to the 'yes' we have given to the Lord's offer of friendship. We know that he will never abandon us. We know that he will always sustain us through the gifts of the Spirit. Mary accepted the Lord's' proposal' in our name. So let us turn to her and ask her to guide us as we struggle to remain faithful to the life-giving relationship God has established with each one of us.

There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Poul is gone, now, more's the pity — he was a neighbor of mine out here in California, and a friend for more than forty years — but his books live on, and I'm happy to see his lovely High Crusade coming into a new incarnation now. —Robert Silverberg, April 2010

I hope we do feel and reason enough alike that I can play tricks on you.

Elves know friendship, if not love, and I would fain see that done which would have gladdened him.

I think you look on death as your friend,' she murmured. 'It is a strange friend for a young man to have.' 'The only faithful friend in all the world,' he said bitterly. 'Death is the only one sure to be at your side.

Friendship is like a tree; it needs care in early days when it's a small plant and when it grows to a size of a tree, it is there for you for a lifetime. Sadly, many plants face an unnatural, abrupt, and painful death.

Sahabat dalam kesulitan adalah sahabat dalam segala-galanya. Jangan sepelekan persahabatan. Kehebatannya lebih besar daripada panasnya permusuhan.

Manusia yang wajar mesti punya sahabat, persahabatan tanpa pamrih. Tanpa sahabat hidup akan terlalu sunyi.

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.