Friendship Quotations | Page 4

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.