Valued Friends Quotes:

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

- Lois Wyse

source: Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

topic: Friendship, Life Is Short, Good Friend, Bff, Insane World

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Mark, Special Friend, Inspirational Friendship, Life Love And Friendship, Friends Forever

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

- George Eliot

topic: Best Friend, Feelings, Comfort, Bff, Female Friends

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

- Robert Breault

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Inspirational Friendship

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend, New Friendship, Sound Doctrine

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Happiness, Music, Hunger For Food, Delicious Food

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

topic: Love, Friendship, Real Friends, One Friend, Being A Good Friend

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Self, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Lonely, Heart, Moon, Bff, Cute Friendship

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, "Grace Kelly." She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

- Edith Head

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stars, Animal, Grace, Valued Friends

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

- George Eliot

topic: Character, Self, Mind, Solicitation, Valued Friends

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Book, Reading, Hands, Valued Friends

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. [...] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Dream, Memories, Confused, Periodic Table, Valued Friends

About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

- Donald Bradman

topic: Hockey, Thinking, Years, Knighthood, Valued Friends

Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

topic: Anger, Fate, Race, Valued Friends