Friendship Quotes
Quotes about Friendship
398 quotes
- “The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another's blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, ...” — Franz Kafka
- “I must say the enclosed letter from Rütten and Loening is a bit stiff. Do I suffer this impertinence because of the poss...” — J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell y...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Attributed in Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark (1971), p. 737. The only source given in the end notes is ...” — Albert Einstein
- “In bodily presence, though not commanding, at sixty he was attractive, spare in build, his voice low but harmonious, his...” — John Stuart Mill
- “To be taken without consent from my home and friends; to lose my liberty; to undergo all those assaults on my personalit...” — C. S. Lewis
- “Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may ma...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “They despised everything but virtue, caring little for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possessi...” — Plato
- “The law of the table is beauty, a respect to the common soul of the guests. Everything is unreasonable which is private ...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Now, I'm not talking about a sentimental, shallow kind of love. I'm not talking about eros, which is a sort of aesthetic...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Have you learned the alphabet of heaven and can count three? Do you know the number of God's family? Can you put mysteri...” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “What is the Unpardonable Sin?" asked the lime-burner; and then he shrank farther from his companion, trembling lest his ...” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “I shall within a few days divest myself of the anxieties and the labors with which I have been oppressed, and retire wit...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “Interestingly, Cicero saw the root of benevolence and charity in conscience, and in fact was the first scholar in histor...” — Cicero
- “Marx never made a discovery in the scientific sense. He never had an illumination which turned his previous ideas upside...” — Karl Marx
- “All this shows how ambitious I was; but I think that I can say with truth that in after years, though I cared in the hig...” — Charles Darwin
- “He was not a bust made of marble; he was a man of flesh and blood - a son and a husband, a father and a friend. And that...” — Nelson Mandela
- “Once he called upon General McClellan, and the President went over to the General's house - a process which I assure you...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “What is the dominant fact of the situation? Germany is arming...Germany is arming particularly in the air. ... it seems ...” — Winston Churchill
- “It was the period of my mental progress which I have now reached that I formed the friendship which has been the honour ...” — John Stuart Mill
- “Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communiti...”
- “Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communiti...”
- “Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communiti...” — Firearm
- “I will use these last pages to sum up our circumstances. A map of the world. [...]I seldom see Lytton; that is true. The...” — Virginia Woolf
- “Only the other day, a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine-st...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe. It will speak, though you were dumb, by its own miraculous o...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There co...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he wo...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and ...” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Third we must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding. At times we are abl...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed i...” — Mark Twain
- “On the seat opposite him was an American tourist. The pattern of his clothes, of his overcoat, the grip he carried, down...” — Agatha Christie
- “I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. I come he...” — And All Our Children's Future — Is My Stake In This Election.
- “Take heed not to be transformed into a Caesar, not to be dipped in the purple dye, for it does happen. Keep yourself the...” — Marcus Aurelius
- “I remember we adjourned for lunch and a friendly Afrikaner warder asked me the question, "Mandela, what do you think is ...” — Nelson Mandela
- “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciatio...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -...” — C. S. Lewis
- “Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me th...” — Sit Down And Tell Me All The News.
- “One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear noth...” — Jesus
- “Some of our opponents cannot help putting ourselves in the extreme right corner in the immigration discussion just becau...” — Angela Merkel
- “We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most i...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must ...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them. I showed them the papers, w...” — Ernest Hemingway
- “Moreover, if the character is formed, and the mind made up, on the few cardinal points of human opinion, agreement of co...” — John Stuart Mill
- “I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of Captain Brown, I would fain d...” — Henry David Thoreau
- “First of all, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks, candidates for President and Vice-President, respectively, de...” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “There are such beings in the world - perhaps one in a thousand - as the creature you and I should think perfection; wher...” — Jane Austen
- “If Einstein said this, he was almost certainly quoting philosopher Immanuel Kant's words from the conclusion to the Crit...” — Albert Einstein
- “I have no hestitation whatever in saying that Wells, as he is, entertains me far more agreeably than Dickens. I know ver...” — H. G. Wells