Friendship Quotations | Page 5

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend.

The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.