Rodman Philbrick Quotes

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.

People want to offer opportunities to people they care about. They want to help people they believe are good people or have shared life experiences with.

Friends share all things.

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.

Life is better when you share it.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart.

You never judge a person if they're going through their downs because you always stick with them when they're going through their ups. If you stay in football business long enough, you're going to have some bad games and you're going to have some bad seasons.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

It's so much more friendly with two.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.