Wonderful Friendship Quotes

I have some pretty wonderful friendships, so that's been really good for me. In the past year, I've really worked on that. I think when I was married, I let my friendships go. I think people thought, "Oh, because she's married now, she's so happy all the time." But I really was just isolated in my house.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!

The best mirror is an old friend.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.