Friendship Quotes - Page 18

• I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

  Edgar Guest

  Mean, Funny Friend, Old Friends

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  Leon Uris

  Friends, Enemy, World

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Funny Best Friend, Real Friends, Funny Friend

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

  Scott Boras

  Love, Life, Success

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• Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

  Robert Frost

  People, Feelings, Mind

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

  William Blake

  Best Friend, Happiness, Educational

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

  Norman Douglas

  Eye, Two

  Almanac (1941) p. 77

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• To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

  Umar

  True Friend, Islamic, Real Friends

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• ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

  Roy Orbison

  Success, Soulmate, Nice

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Birthday, Book

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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

  Simone Weil

  Art, Joy, Want

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Book, Memorable

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Kindness, Understanding, Lasts

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• The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.
  [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

  Ovid

  Herds, Advantage, Vulgar

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• Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Real, Good Friend

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• If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  People, Resistance, Like You

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.49, Baen Books

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• Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Precious Stones, Broken, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.4

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• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

  A. A. Milne

  Two, Monsters, Quests

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real Friends, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Use, Fabric, Kick Ass

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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• Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

  Solomon

  Best Friend, Fall, Good Friend

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

  Francis Bacon

  Best Friend, Worst, Destitute

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Leadership, Peace

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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