Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: empathy friendship success sympathy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury. —Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper More about this quote Tags: life friendship aging age luxury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: friendship ignorance religion learning animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones. —Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly More about this quote Tags: friendship friends certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: love friendship relief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. —John Webster More about this quote Tags: history friendship time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. —John Henry Newman More about this quote Tags: love friendship men exercise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. —Marlene Dietrich More about this quote Tags: importance friendship friends Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: friendship friends time belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. —William Blake More about this quote Tags: friendship nature men birds spiders Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go. —Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet More about this quote Tags: life fear friendship relationships caution leaving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. —Arthur Brisbane More about this quote Tags: friendship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. —Wilson Mizner More about this quote Tags: friendship friends Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: friendship words meaning language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: love friendship relationships marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email