Quotes
Quotes about Friends
Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future. -Rob Lebow.
Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears, Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.
Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-- But we forget not, never can forget.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.]
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soilâbut it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so oftenâjust to save it from drying out completely.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancyâthat it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
