Selected friendship quotes

1. 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.

2. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

3. 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.

4. I wish they would only take me as I am.

5. He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

6. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

7. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

11. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

12. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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

14. Friendship is essentially a partnership.

15. 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.

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

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

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

19. 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.

20. 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!

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

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

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

24. 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.

25. 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.

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

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

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

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

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

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

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

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

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

37. 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.

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

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

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

41. I'd like to introduce you to some friends of mine. I want to break off with them.

42. I like you-I have no taste-but I like you.

43. Friends are born, not made.

44. A friend in power is a friend lost.

45. Intimates are predestined.

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

47. Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

48. Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

49. These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

50. From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

51. Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

52. When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

53. Jack: Don, you're hanging yourself.

54. Jack: What do you think of this card I wrote for Don? 'To Don from Jacky, Oh golly, oh shucks. I hope that you like it, It cost forty bucks.

55. Bob: [about Bing Crosby] He's up in Nevada looking over Boulder Dam - his piggy bank is filled. He's so loaded, you know, he uses Howard Hughes for a bell boy.

56. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

57. Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

58. I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

59. Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

60. To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

61. Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.

62. From wine what sudden friendship springs!

63. I don't enquire after your Affairs-- --so whatever happens, I wash my hands on't---- It hath always been my Maxim, that one Friend should assist another-- --But if you please----I'll take one of the Scarfs home with me. 'Tis always good to have something in Hand.

64. Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.

65. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

66. So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

67. I was broke and Nic [Cage] asked me if I needed a job. I did and he told me I should try acting. (1988)

68. You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act. (2004)

69. When you meet someone like Hunter Thompson and watch him, get to know him - people say whatever they want to say about Hunter and his books - he's pure, he's absolutely pure. There's really not an ugly bone in the guy's body. (2004)

70. We knew and were certainly respectful of each other. There was always the sort of promise, 'Hey, we'll get together and do something sometime.' I liked him. I liked his work ethic, and I liked his choices. He was a sharp guy. He had so many amazing possibilities before him. Fuck, what a waste. For what? (2004)

71. We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

72. Everything has an ending: there will be An ending one sad day for you and me, And ending of the days we had together, The good companionship, all kinds of weather.

73. What's your name, new best friend?

74. At this exquisite vision Tip's old comrades stared in wonder for the space of a full minute, and then every head bent low in honest admiration of the lovely Princess Ozma. The girl herself cast one look into Glinda's bright face, which glowed with pleasure and satisfaction, and then turned upon the others. Speaking the words with sweet diffidence, she said: 'I hope none of you will care less for me than you did before. I'm just the same Tip, you know; only - only - ' 'Only you're different!' said the Pumpkinhead; and everyone thought it was the wisest speech he had ever made.

75. And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

76. Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

77. I never meant 'Come up and see me some time' to be sexy.

78. I absolutely adored Mary. I was transfixed by her. She was so beautiful, so witty, so much fun to talk to.

79. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

80. Yeah, I had a headache, really bad. I was in a gas station and there was a pot of coffee and I looked at it for about a minute and then my brother (motions at Gerard) got a coffee and he taunted me.

81. Friendship is but a name.

82. Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence as you did.

83. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

84. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.

85. On [George Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.

86. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them.

87. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

89. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

90. Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

91. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

92. Dimebag was a dear friend of mine, I'm absolutely beside myself with grief. I can't for the life of me understand why someone would do this. Pantera toured with me many, many times. I'll always remember the signed guitar that he gave me at my 50th birthday party. My heart goes out to Dime's family, his fans and the other innocent victims who were killed in this senseless tragedy. It's just terribly, terribly sad.

93. I fell in love with Randy as a player and a person the instant I saw him. He had the best smile in the world. Randy was the best guy in the world to work with. There is no comparison between him and Tony Iommi, and I can only compare the two because they were the only guitar players I had ever worked with. I was attracted to Randy's angelic attitude towards the whole business. I didn't have to teach him anything; all that he was lacking was guidance. He listened to every word I spoke to him, and we had a great rapport together.

94. We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

95. There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.

96. Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.

97. Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.

98. I am sitting on the sofa. By the fire and staying in. Me head is free of comfort And me nose is free of skin Me friends have run for cover, They have left me pale and sick With me pockets full of tissues And me nostrils full of Vick.

99. We shall lodge at the sign of the Grave, you say; Well, the road is a long one we trudge, my friend, So why should we grieve at the break of the day? Let us sing, let us drink, let us love, let us play,-- We can keep our sights for the journey's end.

100. Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.