Quotes About Friends
Dear, Odd, if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.
- "Ozzie" to Odd Thomas in "Forever Odd" by Dean Koontz
Friendship is like vitamins; we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements.
- Kathy Mohnke
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
- Robert E. Sherwood
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
- George Eliot
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
- Gail Sheehy
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
- Emily Dickinson
Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's just enough to know they're standing by.
- Anonymous
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves: we encourage each other in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
- Charles Lamb
There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.
- Martin E. Marty
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake
Friendship doesn't make you wealthy, but true friendship will reveal the wealth within you.
- Anonymous
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman (Oprah's Book Club)
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
