Philip Sidney Quotes

...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.

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

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

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

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

Few there are that will endure a true friend.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.

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

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.

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

I desire to serve your country as if it were my own, and I hope to find in the friendship of a generous people the true reward of a labor that I consecrate to them.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.