Friendship Quotes - Page 33

• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fun, True Friend, Live Life

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.

  Margot Frank

  Change, Heart, People

  79 Copy quote

• friendship is love made bearable.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Made, Bearable

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.471, Bantam

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Want, Shields, Environment

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

  Sallust

  Desire, Aversion, Firm

  7 Copy quote

• Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sun, Righteousness, Presence Of God

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.4

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

  William Glasser

  Caring, Psychology, Trying

  William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom”, p.15, Harper Collins

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Real Friends, Advice, Shade

  14 Copy quote

• I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

  William Hazlitt

  Faults

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1921, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

  William Hazlitt

  Meat, Cold, Stomach

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1919, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

  William Hazlitt

  Breakup, Promise, Engagement

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

  Amber Heard

  Best Friend, Blow, Years

  18 Copy quote

• I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

  Faith Hill

  Husband, Thinking, Inspire

  23 Copy quote

• When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

  Conor Oberst

  Lonely, Like Being Alone, My Best Friend

  9 Copy quote

• She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.

  Ashley Olsen

  My Best Friend, Needs, Always There For Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

  Gilbert Parker

  Men, Years, Sea

  Gilbert Parker (1798). “Mrs. Falchion”, p.173

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

  Giuliana Rancic

  Dream, Believe, Love Of My Life

  4 Copy quote

• In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Best Friend, Misfortunes

  4 Copy quote

• Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

  Adam Sandler

  Funny, Childhood, Bigs

  Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Waste, Eggs In One Basket

  10 Copy quote

• The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

  Robert Southey

  Goodbye, Farewell, Loss

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Reflection, Expression

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.50

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Secret, Secrecy, Chastity

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.569

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Ville Valo

  My Best Friend, Music Is, Heard

  13 Copy quote

• No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Girl, Hatred, Intense

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.231

  5 Copy quote

  Show source