Pastoral Resources

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Love is a friendship set to music.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.