Quotes About Friendship

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.

After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it.

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

For the first time, it struck me that when Denver said he'd be my friend for life, he meant it-for better or for worse. The hell of it was, Mr. Ballantine never wanted a friend, especially a black one. But once Denver committed, he stuck. It reminded me of what Jesus told His disciples 'Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

But if you is lookin for a real friend, then I'll be one. Forever

Charley said, "Why don't everybody make up and be pleasant for once? Why don't we pass the evening like pleasant human beings?

It's a very New England thing, this being alone even though you don't want to be. It proves, I guess, that you're above being lonely and can take or leave friendship. So, then, I was a loner who wished not to be alone.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Barbara was actually Jeff Foxworthy's interior designer when we first met. So, not only was Jeff responsible for my success in my career, he also introduced me to the woman who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, which, I think, makes us even.

A dog more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine.

A dog is more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine

Great temptations can come from those who love us and seek to protect us. Be cautious of advice from a friend who says, "Surely God doesn't want you to face this." Often our most difficult temptations come from those who are only trying to protect us from discomfort.

Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Where in this wide world can a person find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility, he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent, there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient. England's past has been borne on his back. All our history is his industry; we are his heirs, he our inheritance. The Horse!" ~ Ronald Duncan

like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...

When a group of friends have enjoyed fine conversation together, you will find that uddenly omething extraordinary happen . A they are peaking, it' a if a park ignite , pa ing from one peaker to another, and a it travel , it gather trength, building into a warm and illuminating flame of mutual under tanding which none of them could have achieved alone. SOCRATES, IN PLATO'S "CRITIAS

CONFESSION NO. 18 Girls just want to have fun…and live to tell about it the next day.

Men with good social circles aren't conscious of the effort they put in to maintain them (although they may be conscious of the value they give).

ou know chicks before dicks. Never choose a guy over a friend. It's one of the most important rules of feminism.

I made a big mistake, which I'm really trying to deal with. You bringing it up makes me feel worse. I'm not sure if that's your point, but I promise you that I would never make you feel bad if you were in my situation, so I'm done talking about this." GIRLS

Of course Lily had agreed. She would have agreed to virtually anything Sharon requested, to please her, to allay her fears. Always there was something satisfying, even exciting, about a secret with someone both strong-willed and helpless-seeming like Sharon.