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Friends and friendship

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.
- Hazlitt, William
Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
Franklin, Miles

2.
Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
Weil, Simone

3.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.
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

5.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Humphrey, Hubert H.

6.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Darwin, Charles R.

7.
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Butler, Samuel

9.
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
Proverb, Indian

10.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
FeNelon, Francois

11.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Yeats, William Butler

12.
Everybody needs one essential friend.
Glasser, Dr. William

13.
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Gibran, Kahlil

15.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Syrus, Publilius

16.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.
James, William

17.
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Thoreau, Henry David

18.
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

19.
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

20.
The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.
Hitopadesa

21.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.
My friends, there are no friends.
Chanel, Coco

23.
We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.
Moody, Jess

24.
Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]
Bible

25.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Proverb, Nigerian

26.
He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

27.
A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

28.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely
Brown, Pam

29.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Augustine, St.

30.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Mansfield, Katherine

31.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
Cicero, Marcus T.

32.
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

33.
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

34.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Fuller, Thomas

35.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Lee, Robert E.

36.
To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

37.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Ustinov, Peter

38.
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.

39.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
Cervantes, Miguel De

40.
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
Swift, Jonathan

41.
Short judgments make long friends.
Proverb

42.
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.

43.
Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

44.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Fuller, Thomas

45.
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
Bach, Richard

46.
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

47.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Wein, Len

48.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Belloc, Hilaire

49.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Billings, Josh

50.
Your friendship is your needs answered.
Proverb, Danish


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