Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

10.

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

11.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

12.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

13.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

18.

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

Winchell, Walter

19.

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

20.

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

Mermet, Claude

21.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Lee, Robert E.

24.

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.

25.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

26.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

27.

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

28.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

29.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

32.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

Digest, Readers

34.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

35.

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

36.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

37.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

40.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

41.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

43.

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

Ebers, George

44.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

45.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

46.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

47.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

48.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

49.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

50.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William