Quotes
Quotes about End
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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 friendâor a meaningful day.
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Good friends are good for your health.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
