Friendship Quotes, Quotations and Sayings - Page 9
How does one keep from “growing old inside”? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Robert McAfee Brown
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
Simone Weil
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
A good friend of my son’s is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Mary Catherwood
We need not think alike to love alike.
Francis David
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
E.R. Bulwer-Lytton
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare
We are advertised by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.
Anonymous
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
It isn’t kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren’t bad people; they’re just acquaintances.
Jay Leno
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Antoine de Saint
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.
Don Marquis
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
Anonymous
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Epicurus
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
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