Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Theocritus

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Jerome, St.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David