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Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Indian

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Wycherley, William

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Toast, Irish

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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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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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 good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha