Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Prentice, George D.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Theocritus

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Machado, Aaron

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Python, Monty

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Lee, Robert E.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.