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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Be liked and you will never want.
Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.
I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.
To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?
As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
Volunteers are caring friends
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
I'll be your crying shoulder.
Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
It's not really important that Tip was a good dog to hunt over, but it is important to me that she was a good dog to be with. She was my pal. We enjoyed being with each other. I don't know that you can ask for much more.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.
I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers.
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
A friend married is a friend lost.
Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.
In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.