Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Jerome, St.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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

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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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 one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Hitopadesa

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Storey, David