George MacDonald on Friendship
Thursday, June 19th, 2008If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali
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
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
- Douglas Pagels
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
- Katherine Mansfield
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
- Dag Hammarskjold