Measure Of Friendship Quotes

#1. One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman

#2. A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Francis Crick

#3. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

R. K. Milholland

#4. The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.

Mary Stewart

#5. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.

Russ Ramsey

#6. The people of your world are forgetting their foundations. Discernment erodes and muddies all waters, no matter how pure.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#7. In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

David A. Bednar

#8. To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.

Richard Ford

#10. You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing ...

Madame De La Fayette

#11. There had to be consequences. Lacey was always right about that. Maybe freaks stayed freaks and losers stayed losers, maybe sad and weak was forever, but villains only stayed villains until someone stopped them.

Robin Wasserman

#12. Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

Jack Nicholson

#13. One doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#14. I felt obligated by friendship as well as duty to make certain they were comfortably housed. Since men seem to measure comfort by the degree of dirt and confusion that prevails, I deduced that they were very comfortable.

Elizabeth Peters

#15. Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#16. I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

Amanda Hemingway

#17. Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

#18. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

#19. Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible.

Peter Kreeft

#20. I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times.

Terraine Francois

#21. What do you call a conspiracy theory that's backed up by evidence? Oh yes, a conspiracy

Ian Shircore

#22. We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure ...
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#23. I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

Robert Wilson

#24. Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

Mal Peet

#25. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

#26. We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

Dada Vaswani

#27. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

#28. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.

Esther Earl

#29. Money isn't the only measure of making a house a home.

M. Judeth Nelson