Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Winchell, Walter

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Auden, W. H.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bach, Richard

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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 would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lamb, Charles

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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