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Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

3.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

4.

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

Gay, John

5.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

6.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

7.

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

Fuller, Thomas

8.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

9.

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

FeNelon, Francois

10.

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

11.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

17.

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

Powell, John Enoch

18.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

19.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

20.

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

21.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

23.

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

24.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

27.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

28.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

29.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

32.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

35.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

36.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

38.

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

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

43.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

46.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

47.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

48.

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

Thackeray, William M.

49.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

50.

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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