Distance Friendship Quotes
"It takes a lot of understanding, time, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset."
- Erynn Miller
"It’s the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrich
"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't."
- A. A. Milne
"It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy."
- George Herbert Walker Bush
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 AM that matter."
- Marlene Deitrich
"I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?"
- John Lennon
"John has never left my life. He's an amazing man. Our friendship is still strong ..."
- Linda Evans
"Just finding somebody that was your best friend, who you could be with and enjoy the passage of time--and that's what I found."
- Jennifer Aniston
"Keep your friendships in repair."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)"
- Comte De Bussy-Rabutin
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
- Kahil Gibran
"Let your best be for your friend..."
- Kahil Gibran
"Life is fortified by many friendships"
- Sydney Smith
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion ..."
- Charles Caleb Colton
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
- Anonymous
"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when ..."
- Emily Bronte
"Love is only charter, friends are all that matter"
- Gelett Burgess
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
- Charles Peguy
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
- Martin Luther King
"Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions."
- Isocrates
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
- Samuel Butler
"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."
- George Norman Douglas
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police."
- Anonymous
"Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox — affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship."
- Peter Ustinov
"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd."
- John Dryden
"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy."
- Spike Milligan
"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. "
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."
- Lord Chesterfield
"Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain."
- Jane Austen
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
- Lee Iacocca
"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are."
- B. A. Billingsly
"My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still."
- Anonymous
"My friends are little lamps to me, Their radiance warms and cheers my ways, And all the pathway dark and lone Is brightened by their rays. I try to keep them bright by faith, And never let them dim with doubt; For every time I lose a friend A little lamp goes out."
- Elizabeth Whittemore
"My God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."
- François-Marie Arouet
"My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I'd do anything for you And my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true."
- Sarah Mclachlan