Friendship

Found 41 thoughts of friendship

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

William Shakespeare

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Japanese Proverb

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Randy K. Milholland

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Wilson Mizner

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Jay Leno

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Unknown

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott

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

Madame de Tencin

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

Real Live Preacher

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold
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