429 private quotes tagged friendship

“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.” — Bil Keane

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” — Anais Nin

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“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.” — Len Wein

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“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich

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“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.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.” — Alice Duer Miller

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“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.” — Chanakya

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“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

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“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck

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“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.” — Walter Winchell

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“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” — Giotto di Bondone

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“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.” — Chanakya

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“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” — Toni Morrison

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“Friendship and money: oil and water.” — Mario Puzo

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“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” — Doug Larson

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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” — Joseph Roux

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“Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.” — Judy Holliday

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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker

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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” — Katherine Mansfield

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