Friendship Quotations | Page 3

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.

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

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.