Friendship Quotes - Page 36

• True friendship is never serene.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  True Friend, Real Friends, Cute Best Friend

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• Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• Love is friendship set to music.

  Jackson Pollock

  Music, Best Love, Girlfriend

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• Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peace, Enemy, Friends Show

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• Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

  Kofi Abrefa Busia

  Art, Mean, Enemy

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• Friends are the sunshine of life.

  John Hay

  Love, Relationship, Family

  John Hay (1913). “Poems”

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• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

  Eustace Budgell

  Relationship, Strong, True Friend

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• Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

  Sean Covey

  Best Friend, Losing Friends, Foundation

  Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

  S. E. Hinton

  Real Friends, Good Friend, Two Friends

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.28, Penguin

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• It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Two, Differences

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

  Epictetus

  Effort, Training, Achieve

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Dog, Home, Men

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• There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate

  Unknown

  Cute Relationship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

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• The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Travel, Humor

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• They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

  John Howard

  Kids, Good Friend, Order

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Change, Nature

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.316, Transaction Publishers

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• Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Winning, Enemy, Liberty

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• Your aspirations are your possibilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Justice

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• Frienship is eros...without wings

  Lord Byron

  Wings, Eros

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• An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

  Adam Ant

  Brain, Century, 21st Century

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• My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

  William Morris

  Heaven, Earth, Deeds

  'A Dream of John Ball' (1888) ch. 4

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• I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

  Meat Loaf

  Fall, Lost, Found

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