Best 6393 quotes in «friendship quotes» category

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

Dogs never lie about love.

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.