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Friends and friendship

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

30.

Make friends before you need them

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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.