Quotes about friendship

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.

I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage had redeemed it.

"Farewell, good thief," he said. "I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate."

Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.

Like summer friends,

Flies of estate and sunneshine.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.

As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.