Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Jerome, St.

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

10.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Pepys, Samuel

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Piper, E. K.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Euripides

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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