Henry Home Quotes

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it.

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Few there are that will endure a true friend.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.