Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Proverb, English

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. 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!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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

32.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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

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

Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Russian

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Ones oldest friend is the best.