Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

- Bacon, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Bacon, Francis

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham