Friendship famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
-- A. A. Milne -
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
-- A. A. Milne -
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
-- A. A. Milne -
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
-- A. A. Milne -
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
-- A. A. Milne -
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
-- A. A. Milne -
Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
-- A. A. Milne -
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.
-- A. A. Milne -
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
-- A. A. Milne -
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
-- A. A. Milne -
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
-- A. A. Milne -
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
-- A. A. Milne -
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
-- A. E. Housman -
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
-- A.J. Cronin -
Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
-- Abel Bonnard -
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
-- Abraham Cowley -
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.
-- Adam Sandler -
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
-- Aeschylus -
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
-- Agnes Repplier -
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
-- Alain de Botton -
A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.
-- Alan Carr -
I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.
-- Alan Sugar -
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
-- Alanis Morissette -
You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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.
-- Albert Camus -
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
-- Albert Camus -
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
-- Albert Camus -
May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
-- Albert Camus -
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-- Albert Einstein -
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
-- Albert Einstein -
The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.
-- Albert Payson Terhune -
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.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
-- Alexander Pope -
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
-- Alexander Pope -
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
-- Alexander Pope -
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
-- Alexander Pope -
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
-- Alexander Pope -
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
-- Alexander Pope -
My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
-- Alexander Smith -
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Friends have ways of speaking without words.
-- Alice Dalgliesh -
Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
-- Alice Miller -
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
-- Alice Walker -
no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
-- Alice Walker -
We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.
-- Allen Johnson -
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
-- Allen Tate -
the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.
-- Ally Carter -
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace....
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
-- Alphonse Karr -
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
-- Alphonse Karr -
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'
-- Amber Heard -
I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.
-- Amber Riley -
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
-- Amelia Barr -
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
-- Anais Nin -
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-- Anais Nin -
There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.
-- Andrew Greeley -
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
-- Anita Brookner -
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
-- Ann Brashares -
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
-- Anna Freud -
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer -
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld
