Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

- Bourne, Randolph S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

2.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

4.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

5.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

6.

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

Sallust

7.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

8.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

9.

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

14.

Make friends before you need them

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

17.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

19.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

20.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

21.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

22.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

23.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

24.

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

25.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

26.

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

27.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

28.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

29.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

32.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

34.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

35.

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

Toast, Irish

36.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

37.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

40.

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

Swift, Jonathan

41.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

42.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Proverb, Indian

44.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

45.

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

Chambers, Oswald

46.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

47.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

48.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

49.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

50.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle