Joseph Addison Quotes

There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin addiction with them. If they seem receptive, you can feel free to talk about it in further detail; if they seem judgmental or uncomfortable, you can move on to other topics.

Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Friendships I think can also be soul mates.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

You don't get that many people in your life that you can just tell anything to.

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

If you want to understand what I'm thinking further, come talk to me. It shouldn't be something that should be hidden. These conversations need to happen and can bring everybody closer.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

I really care about my friends and I think I'm kind of the person who would be rounding up all the friends. I'm always getting everyone together.

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.

I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.