Quotes about Friendship

They come as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl, and the Waverley pen.

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

He's my buddy," she said, then patted my hand. "And he's faithful." Patsy opened the door to her home and shuffled in. "Like the Lord.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

At eleven she sat with Dick and the Norths at a houseboat café just opened on the Seine. The river shimmered with lights from the bridges and cradled many cold moons.

New friends," he said, as if it were an important point, "can often have a better time together than old friends." With

Not only for that night but for the days and weeks that followed his books were to be but furniture and his friends only people who lived and walked in a nebulous outer world from which he was trying to escape.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.