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Friends and friendship

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Euripides

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

FeNelon, Francois

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Crane, Frank

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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

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Wycherley, William

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur