About Friendship Quotes - Page 6

• One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Real, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  George Washington

  True Friend, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.39, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Funny Friend

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

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• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Best Friend, Self

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7592, Delphi Classics

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• Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

  E. B. White

  Friendship, Change, Wisdom

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Friendship, Bff

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• No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

  Francois Mauriac

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Friendship, Notebook

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1, 1996.

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• Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

  Richelle Mead

  Friendship, Romance, Enemy

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• Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Friendship, Smart, Reading

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• The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspirational Life, Real Friends

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

  Mencius

  Friendship, Brother, True Friend

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• We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Wish, Should

  See Bible 225; Chesterfield 4; Confucius 9; Hillel 2

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• Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Real Friends, Boards

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, Real, Losing Friends

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

  Elie Wiesel

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Friendship, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

  Dean Koontz

  Friendship, Real Friends, World

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.234, Bantam

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Sweet, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Teacher, Fun

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