Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Python, Monty

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Homer

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

10.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Young, Brigham

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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

33.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Aristotle

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts