Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

- Swift, Jonathan

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Schulberg, Budd

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Auden, W. H.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Ebers, George

14.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Winchell, Walter

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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

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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

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Jerome, St.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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