Friendship Quotes - Page 38

• Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Expectations, Contracts, Bigs

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• For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.

  Robert Griffin III

  Believe, Young, Quarterback

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• I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.

  Jessica Hahn

  Believe, My Best Friend, I Believe

  "Encore Presentation: Interview with Jessica Hahn". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2005.

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• What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

  Scott Hamilton

  Girl, Sports, School

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• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin

  Advice, May, Nine

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• I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?

  Christian Slater

  Funny Friend, Worst Enemy, Differences

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• Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

  Gelett Burgess

  Funny Friend, Love Is, Matter

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• My friends, there are no friends.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Humor, No Friends

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• You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

  John Travolta

  Justice, Nuclear, My Friends

  "Fictional character: Vic Deakins". Broken Arrow, 1996.

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• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

  Marge Piercy

  Giving, Hug, Mind

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• You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Years, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011

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  Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

  Euripides

  Real, Army, Prosperity

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Book, Challenges, Calling

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• One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

  Henry Adams

  Real, Two, Community

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Men, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

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• Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

  Charles Peguy

  Real, Love Is, Genius

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.

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• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gratitude, Real, Errors

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• Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Real, Unique, Thank God

  "Failure: the Back Door to Success".

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• A joy shared is a joy doubled.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Real Friends, Joy

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• Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Falling In Love, Real, Profound

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cousin, Powerful, Real

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Self Respect, Self Knowledge

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Believe, Mean

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Birthday, Giving Up, Real

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