Friendship Quotes
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These violent delights have violent ends.
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The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.
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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
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Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
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The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
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Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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friendship is love made bearable.
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To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
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Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.
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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
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Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.
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I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
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Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
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Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
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I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
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Some day the quest for friendship will replace the quest for material well-being that sooner or later will have been adequately provided for.
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People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.
