Family Friendship Quotes
"President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?""
- Abraham Lincoln
"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."
- F.M. Cornford
"Recipe for Friendship: 1 level head 1 big heart 1 small mouth 1 good ear ...and a pinch of poor memory."
- Lila Stuart
"Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt, that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul-mate, and your love."
- Helen Keller
"Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me."
- Gravestone
"Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, ..."
- Bill Bradley
"Rotary has satisfactorily demonstrated the fact that friendship can easily hurdle national and religious boundary ..."
- Paul Harris
"Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend."
- Ani Difranco
"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."
- Austin O'Malley
"Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun."
- William Wordsworth
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need."
- Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
"Some friends come and go like a season. Others are arranged in our lives for good reason."
- Sharita Gadison
"Someone has said that a friend is a bank of credit on which we can draw supplies of confidence, counsel, sympathy, help, and love. And that is true, for if you have a genuine friend, you possess riches greater than silver or gold. Which, of course, brings us to the other side of the question: Are you, and am I, the kind of friend that others can treasure?"
- Esther Baldwin York
"Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying "You gave me the wrong key!""
- Anaïs Nin
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
- Gloria Naylor
"Sometimes life is hard to bear when a friend is just not there."
- William Franc
"Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary."
- Louisa May Alcott
"Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend."
- William Shakespeare
"Support your friends — even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting."
- Hugh Prather
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
- Cervantes
"Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."
- Benjamin Franklin
"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."
- Charles Bukowski
"That´s if you´re lucky enough to get one of those "friendly" dogs."
- Jimmy Fallon
"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
- Aristotle
"The best friend will probably get the best spouse, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."
- Salma Hayek
"The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had."
- Anonymous
"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert
"The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons."
- G. T. Hewitt
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
- Ether Barrymore
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. "
- William Blake
"The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it."
- Jennie Garth
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses."
- David Storey
"The finger of God touches your life when you make a friend."
- Mary Dawson Hughes
"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."
- Gaius Sallustius Crispus
"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. "
- Charles Caleb Colton
"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."
- William Shakespeare