Quotes About Friendship

I tried not to smile as I gathered the marbles. After counting them out by color and placing them into the holes, I looked at Sapphire and shrugged. 'There aren't enough.' Miz Obee's face tensed, but Sapphire looked at her friend kindly, patted the table, and said, 'Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.' I thought that was one of the wisest things I'd ever heard anyone say.

Sapphire knew full well what Miz Obee was doing, but she always looked at her friend with tenderness in her eyes and pretended not to notice. As I watched this silent exchange between Sapphire and Miz Obee, it occurred to me that that's what friends should do: cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

I wonder if maybe death does that -- turns strangers into friends for a few minutes, or an hour, or maybe even a whole day.

it occurred to me that that's what friends should do: cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Her laughter was a wondrous, liquid thing that splashed across my face, over the toes of my shoes, and into the grass.

Sapphire knew full well what Miz Obee was doing, but she always looked at her friend with tenderness in her eyes and pretended not to notice. As I watched this silent exchange between Sapphire and Miz Obee, it occurred to me that that's what friends should do cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Have some more tea, dear," Hester said, reaching for the pot and refilling my cup. "I always find that helps.

It's a red flag if you have to call your friends or obtain a PhD to decipher what he is trying to communicate to you.

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they'd just walk around naked at all times.

But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.

I was a child who listened to trees and felt the disappointments of the dead. I had friends but they weren't as real as those invisible things that inhabited secret places in my mind.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

No enemy can match a friend." Jonathan Swift, Irish author

Gail giggled. Mrs. Brisbane

Not with Humphrey in it, you dodo.

Betty G. Birney

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: "Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?

I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: "Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?" Unfortunately, too many people, when you try separating them from their material possessions and any and all activity, turn out to be like cheap golf balls. You unwind and unwind and unwind but you never get to the pure rubber core because there isn't any.

She paused and added seriously, 'Isn't it funny the way we're talking, just as though we've known each other for years and years.' He said easily, 'Oh, I'm a great believer in instant friendship.

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.