Quotes about Friendship

If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

He has decided to be our friend — indeed, the word in Greek can be even stronger, our lover — the one who really embraces us and is as close as we can imagine. Very near the heart of Christian prayer is getting over the idea that God is somewhere a very, very long way off, so that we have to shout very loudly to be heard. On the contrary: God has decided to be an intimate friend and he has decided to make us part of his family, and we always pray on that basis.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back. False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

Think often the connection of all things in the world and their mutual relations, they are arguably intertwined with each other and thus have for each other a mutual friendship, and that under the connection that leads him and the unity of matter

Not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, but to strive to reduce him to his former disposition

Not to shrug off a friend's resentment—even unjustified resentment—but try to put things right.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......