“Friendship Quotes” | Grandma’s Stories

Jul 21st “Friendship Quotes”

Some of the best book quotes about friendship…

“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”

“Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream.”

″ better not to have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having made me businesses which none without thee can sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute them thyself or take away with thee the very services thou hast done; which if I have not enough considered, as too much I cannot, to be more thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit therein the heaping friendships.”

“Love opens the door of ancient recognition. You enter. You come home to each other at last. As Euripides said, ‘Two friends, one soul.‘”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

“He’s just Finn. We’ve been friends too long and I know him too well, you know? And he’s still a boy, Doda. If I ever find a man, he’ll have to be a man, really a man, to handle me”

“Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt

ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does:

let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.”

‘‘‘I know,’ he said, breaking our embrace. ‘Inshallah, we’ll celebrate later. Right now, I’m going to run that blue kite for you,’ he said. He dropped the spool and took off running, the hem of his green chapan dragging in the snow behind him.

‘Hassan!’ I called. ‘Come back with it!’

He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ‘For you a thousand times over!’ he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. The next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph.”

“A good deed, “said the prophet Mohammed, ‘is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another.’

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer?

Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very

thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.”

“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”

“A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.”

“Love your pals. Love yourself.”

“And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right.”

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

“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”