Friendship Quotes - Page 27

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Education, Dog

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

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• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Speech in New York City, www.imdb.com. December 12, 1964.

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• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

  Nora Roberts

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.411, Penguin

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• Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

  Charles Lamb

  Names, Sound, Cold

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• Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

  Charles Churchill

  Hurt, Dread, Foe

  Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.64

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• A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

  Saadi

  Dog, Stones, Never Forget

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• The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dog, Humble, Men

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• The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once had a dog named Beau. He used to sleep in the corner of the bedroom. Some nights, though, he would sneak onto the bed and lie right between Gloria and me. I know that I should have pushed him off the bed, but I didn't. He was up there because he wanted me to pat his head, so that's what I would do.

  James Stewart

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

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• 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.

  August Strindberg

  Men, Views, August

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.122, The Floating Press

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• The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

  William Cowper

  Men, Needs, Bears

  'Friendship' (1782) l. 169

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• What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
  [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]

  Plautus

  Mines

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• God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspiring, Clay, Potters

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

  Alistair Cooke

  Love, Life, Baby

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  But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Golf, Hands

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• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Happy, Writing, Young Friends

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• When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grieving, Hiking, Mountain

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

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• If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

  Johnny Ramone

  Success, Good Friend, Men

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.156, Abrams

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• I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a friend, an ex. I'll always try to treat people the way I want to be treated.

  Nina Dobrev

  Love, Inspirational, Attitude

  "‘Vampire Diaries’ Star Nina Dobrev Feels No ‘Negativity’ Toward Ex Ian Somerhalder" by Lily Karlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Best Friend, Home

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• Happiness is being married to your best friend.

  Barbara Weeks

  Women, Married, Your Best Friend

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• Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

  Edgar Guest

  Simple, Needs, Stories

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

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

  Bernard Williams

  Criticism, Critics

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• It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

  Nicole Richie

  Betrayal, Long, Betrayed

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• Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Song, Sweet

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 08, 2014

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• Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

  R. K. Milholland

  Feelings, Being There, Lows

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