Quotes About Friendship

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

In appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another, and know it on both sides.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

One, by his own confession to me, that can put on two several faces, and look his enemies in the face with as much love as his friends. But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation.

saying my fellow-officers are obliged to me, as indeed they

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one thing that we are all put on this earth to do: help one another - because it is the only thing that, in the long run, gives us pleasure, as receiving love and friendship and affection is the only thing that gives us joy and ameliorates the dread of our inevitable extinction.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving the loneliness, the failing of the senses, the fury of the half-blind looking into the mirror and not recognizing who is looking back, a dear friend, a dear reliever, a healer who would be with them for an eternity, the same eternity as the long ago, before birth.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Don't cry over a lost friend. And remember, that person lost a friend too.

I want to be your personal penguin. Please?

What Tomi liked best was school, which had opened late in the fall of 1942.

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar.

I'd write Bright Idea #84: When you go through a new town that don't look like much, stop anyway, because you just might find a best friend waiting there.