A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
— The Three Sisters
Quotes About Friendship
There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.
— Puck of Pook's Hill
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.
— Thoughts on Art and Life
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
— De Senectute, De Amicitia
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
— Death in Venice and Other Tales
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
— A Guide To Happiness
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
— Love and Responsibility
O friend, for the morrow let us not worry / This moment we have now, let us not hurry / When our time comes, we shall not tarry / With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
— Aesop's Fables
it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure -- that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
— Nausea
Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?
— Ajax
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
— Prometheus Bound
If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?
— The Misanthrope
I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.
In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.
Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.