Quotes About Friendship

Oh, I just hate you," she cried. "You're going to have so much fun without me.

Tell me the four people with whom you spend the most time and I will tell you who you are.

If your best friend were to ask how she could live a better life, you would probably find many useful things to say, and yet you might not live that way yourself. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

And then came the insight that irrevocably transformed my sense of how good human life could be. I was feeling boundless love for one of my best friends, and I suddenly realized that if a stranger had walked through the door at that moment, he or she would have been fully included in this love. Love was at bottom impersonal—and deeper than any personal history could justify. Indeed, a transactional form of love—I love you because. . . —now made no sense at all.

By lying, we deny our friends access to reality9—and their resulting ignorance often harms them in ways we did not anticipate. Our friends may act on our falsehoods, or fail to solve problems that could have been solved only on the basis of good information. Rather often, to lie is to infringe on the freedom of those we care about.

I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends.

Our friendship, for example, and how quickly we passed through each other, from fascinated strangers to loyal chums to relics of each other's world. We'd been pawns of proximity, choiceless as brothers.

A rich boy goes to college. He makes a lot of friends. They all think they are special and that they suffer in distinct ways, but they are all hurtling down the same world-historical funnel. They will attempt to professionalize their passions, or else just get jobs.

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A few months ago, leaving for college seemed glamourous, but now it's hard to believe that this little dorm room, with its scratchy sheets and a lock that sticks, is home. It's hard to accept that this is my new life, that these are my new friends. I am one in many here. There are dozens here as good as me, even more who are smarter, funnier. And it scares me because before I stuck out and now I blend in.

Who are you, O noble one?' asked Gaam, 'My friend the centauress has walked these lands many times, but she has never seen one as mighty as you.' 'Then heed my words, dwarf,'--the Kol-dwellers all flinched and looked at Gaam, but he was unmoved--'and tell thy woman-horse I am Sir Cyr, Guardian of the Bridge.' 'Sir what?' asked Gaam. 'Sir Cyr.' 'Never mind. (...)

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship

Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny.BibleMatt.xx. 13.5. To

What poor wretches are we, Harriet, men as well as women! We pray for long life; and what is the issue of our prayers, but leave to outlive our teeth and our friends, to stand in the way of our elbowing relations, and to change our swan-skins for skins of buff; which nevertheless will keep out neither cold nor infirmity?

God send me a friend, that may tell me of my faults: if not, an enemy, and he will.

Is not friendship the basis of my Love?

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Alas; they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth

Friendship is a sheltering tree.