Quotes About Friendship

one night I met up with Death's friend and didn't know it.

Charlie scratched inside his left ear. Everybody. The first war in history where everybody won. I can't figure it. So long. He went on up the sidewalk, crossed the front yard, opened the door of his house, waved, and was gone. There goes Charlie, said Douglas.

Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things are looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is it a book.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early. One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more. . .

how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over.' 

Els amics no perdonen, obliden.

That day in the park when we sat together, I knew that some day you might drop by, with fire or friendship.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

And Jim was there, half in, half out of the cold glass tides like someone abandoned on a seashore when a close friend has gone far out, and there is wonder if he will ever come back.

La maggior parte di noi non può correre qua e là notte e giorno, parlare con tutti, conoscere tutte le città della terra, non abbiamo tempo, denaro, nemmeno tanti amici. Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l'uomo medio potrà vederne il novantanove per cento sarà un libro.

Outside the window the boys gabbled to each other. 'White as milk, she said. White as milk.' 'White as a stone, like chalk you write with.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over. From Fahrenheit 451_RAY Bradbury

So there they go, Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.

Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions.

I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

It seems that the savage autocracy, any more than the divine democracy, does not limit its diet exclusively to the bodies of its enemies. It devours its friends and servants as well.

Brutus and Cassius howl in Hell together

Comrade" was a word much in vogue under Communism, which tried to foist equality even on friendship by making all men and women equally one's friend in the forthcoming (it hasn't quite arrived yet) just society. But in the social sense friendship isn't about equality. Quite the reverse. By its nature friendship is preferential: one chooses one person over another to draw closer to; an element of exclusivity is implied in the word "friend.

I have no parents I make the heavens and earth my parents I have no home I make awareness my home I have no life or death I make the tides of breathing my life and death I have no divine power I make honesty my divine power I have no friends I make my mind my friend I have no enemy I make carelessness my enemy I have no armor I make benevolence my armor I have no castle I make immovable-mind my castle I have no sword I make absence of self my sword.