Serious Friendship Quotes
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who would be friends with God must remain alone or make the whole world his friend."
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
"Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comfort us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us."
- Pilpay
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost ..."
- Albert Camus
"How does one keep from growing old inside? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable."
- Robert McAfee Brown (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
- Henry David Thoreau (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"However rare true love is, true friendship is even rarer. "
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.Thanks to Maria Marquis"
- Katherine Mansfield
"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
- Oscar Wilde (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love ..."
- Alban Berg (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
- William Shakespeare (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"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 (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
- Abraham Lincoln (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I had formed a friendship with an Irish producer called Noel Pearson. He was a ..."
- Elmer Bernstein (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I hate it in friends when they come too late to help."
- Euripides (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
- E. M. Forster (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold."
- Jimmy Buffet
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of ..."
- Thomas A. Edison (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy ..."
- Jean Cocteau (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last."
- Bridget Davis (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
- Pietro Aretino (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
- Blaise Pascal (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
- Walt Whitman (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs to life under a strain even better than under a caress."
- Andre Gide (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd— “How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude.” But grant me still a friend in my retreat, To whom I may whisper—”Solitude is sweet.”"
- William Cooper (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences."
- Horacio A. Tenorio (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed ..."
- Edward Gibbon (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar."
- Robert Brault (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy."
- Charles Dickens (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that ..."
- Jimmy Carl Black (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars."
- Captain Edward (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."
- Edgar Albert Guest (Serious Friendship Quotes)
If 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."
- Howe (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair."
- Dr. Samuel Johnson (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly."
- Margaret Atwood (Serious Friendship Quotes)
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
- Edward Morgan (Serious Friendship Quotes)