Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

2.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

3.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

4.

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

5.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

6.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

7.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

8.

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

Auden, W. H.

9.

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

Ovid

10.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

12.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

13.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

14.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Python, Monty

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

19.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

21.

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

Mermet, Claude

22.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Hazlitt, William

25.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

26.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

27.

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.

28.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

29.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

Proverb, Russian

31.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

32.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

33.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

34.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

35.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

38.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

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.

42.

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

Breton, Nicholas

43.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

46.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

47.

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

48.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

49.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor