Robert J. Ringer Quotes

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.

Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds. It's kind of like going to a new high school. You want to see who everyone is before you introduce yourself, really, to kind of make friends. I think any smart person does that in social situations

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

Great. I've made a friend.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!