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Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

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

Homer

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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 good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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