Friendship Quotes - Page 29

• We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

  Robert Breault

  Stars, Luck, Comedy

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• If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  True Friend, Selfish, Lovers

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.55

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• Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

  John Lyly

  Friends, Fall, Affection

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• 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.

  Pete Wentz

  Real, Adversity, Mind

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• The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Beautiful, Character, Joy

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• No man is useless while he has a friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Cheer, Real Friends, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.550, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

  John D. MacDonald

  Unforgivable, Avoiding, Dependent

  "The Last One Left". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1967.

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• To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

  Ricky Nelson

  Song, Memories, Play

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• 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.

  Aristophanes

  Wall, War, Learning

  "Birds". Book by Aristophanes, 414 BCE.

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• Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

  Isocrates

  Men, Giving, No Friends

  "Complete Works of Isocrates".

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• Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real Friends, Weight, Lost Friend

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• Friendship with oneself is all important.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Self Confidence

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• He makes no friend who never made a foe.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Military, No Friends, Made

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 1080

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• Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

  Brendan Behan

  Hurt, Writing, Friendly

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• How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

  William Rotsler

  Real, Eulogy, Wonderful

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• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Flower, Wine, Age Love

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• Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

  Joseph Addison

  Best Friend, Thinking, Talking

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

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• A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Heart, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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• Friends are everything. They're people you can tell anything to, do fun stuff with, laugh at the same jokes with, who understand what you're going through 'cause they're going through it, too. Friends get it.

  Randi Reisfeld

  Fun, People, Laughing

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• Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

  Rumi

  Family, Oil, Rose

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

  Steven Moffat

  Falling In Love, War, Hero

  "The Ax Interview: Showrunners Steven Moffat And Mark Gatiss On ‘Sherlock’ And ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Abbie Bernstein, www.assignmentx.com. November 12, 2010.

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Taken, Broken, World

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.21, Aeterna Press

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• As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

  Robert Breault

  Giving, Understanding, Trying

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• The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

  Doug Larson

  Cat, Animal, Men

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• You can't make someone be your best friend.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Your Best Friend, Be Your Best

  "Nasty, nasty girls" by Margaret Talbot, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2002.

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