677 Friendship Quotes

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.

O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!

We must have courage, faith, and lunch together sometime soon.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

I know myself, and I have such a sense of religion that I shall never do anything which I would not do before the whole world; but I am alarmed at the very thoughts of being in the society of people, during my journey, whose mode of thinking is so entirely different from mine (and from that of all good people). But of course they must do as they please. I have no heart to travel with them, nor could I enjoy one pleasant hour, nor know what to talk about; for, in short, I have no great confidence in them. Friends who have no religion cannot be long our friends.

I am a friend, comrades, a friend!

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

Amigo, amigo!

Ya lil' nasty!

No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy.

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. ~ Adam Smith

I was obliged to retract, like a good Catholic, this opinion of mine; and as a punishment my dialogue was prohibited; and after five months being dismissed from Rome (at the time that the city of Florence was infected with plague), the habitation which with generous pity was assigned to me, was that of the dearest friend I had in Siena, Monsignor the Archbishop Piccolomini, whose most agreeable conversation I enjoyed with such quite and satisfaction of mind, that having there resumed my studies, I discovered and demonstrated a great number on the mechanical conclusions on the resistance of solids:after about five months, the pestilence having ceased, the confinement of that house was changed by His Holiness for the freedom of the country so agreeable to me, whence I returned to the villa of Bellosguardo, and afterwards to Arcetri, where I still breathe salubrious air near my dear native-country Florence. (Selection, pp.251-253)

Friends - They are like air bubbles on water, hastening to flow together. History tells of Orestes and Pylades, Damon and Pythias, but why should not we put to shame those old reserved worthies by a community of such? Constantly, as it were through a remote skylight, I have glimpses of a serene friendship-land, and know the better why brooks murmur and violets grow. This conjunction of souls, like waves which met and break, subsides also backward over things, and gives all a fresh aspect. I would live henceforth with some gentle soul such a life as may be conceived, double for variety, single for harmony - two, only that we might admire at our oneness - one, because indivisible. Such community to be a pledge of holy living. How could aught unworthy be admitted into our society? To listen with one ear to each summer sound, to behold with one eye each summer scene, our visual rays so to meet and mingle with the object as to be one bent and doubled; with two tongues to be wearied, and thought to spring ceaselessly from a double fountain.

Amicus Plato - amicus Aristoteles - magis amica veritas

I liked Benny right away, he had something I enjoyed very much - a worse singing voice than mine. ~ George Burns

Jack and Mary and Gracie and I were going to dinner one night and Gracie asked Mary, 'Is Jack really thirty-nine?' And Mary said, 'Ridiculous.' Then she asked, 'And how is his sex life?' and Mary said, 'Ridiculous!' ~ George Burns

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. ~ Bob Hope

...That's just how I see male relationships. Just one pleasantry shy of a cock in the mouth.

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men

A true friend stabs you in the front

Peter especially, I think, summarized for all of us the feelings that Dan and I have-the three of us have-when people often ask, 'Are you friends?' And Peter said, 'Yes, we are friends because we don't see each other that often.'... And then he went on to say that we've all made each other better. ~ Tom Brokaw, former NBC anchor

I found Robert A. Heinlein in back issues of Astounding, and also in The Saturday Evening Post, and I read everything of his I could find. I was completely hooked on his 'juveniles': Space Cadet. Red Planet. Starman Jones. Between Planets. Farmer in the Sky. Wonderful stories, and the only thing 'juvenile' about them was that he took the trouble to explain what was happening. Robert once told me that young people want to know how things work, and you can tell them more in a 'juvenile' than you can in an adult novel. In any event I devoured everything of his I could find, through high school, the army, college, and I couldn't have cared less that many were 'juveniles'. They were wonderful. I met Robert Heinlein years later, and through some kind of rare magic we became instant friends. We corresponded for a decade. In those days I was an engineering psychologist, operations research specialist, and systems engineer in aerospace. Most of my work was military aerospace, but I did get to work on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. We were helping to make the dream come true! I went from there to a professorship, and then into political management and city government. Robert visited me when I was working for Mayor Sam Yorty. 'You probably don't know this,' he said, 'but my political career ended when Yorty beat me for the Democratic nomination to the State Assembly.' When I finally decided to get out of politics, academia, and the aerospace industry and try my hand at writing, Mr. Heinlein was enormously helpful. Years later, when I was an established writer, I asked him how I could pay him back. 'You can't,' he said. 'You don't pay back, you pay forward.' I never forgot that, just as I never forgot the wonderful things his 'juvenile' stories did for me.

'Courage, dear heart'