Friendship Quotes - Page 67

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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.

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.

Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to his master that he loved, and gamboled there and licked his hand in heart-full joy. Again the victor's crown was his, and the master, a man of dogs, caressed the head of shining black with the jewel eyes of gold.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

Nothing prepared me for your smile

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.