Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

- Stux, Erica H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Homer

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Holz, Julie

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

17.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Talmud, The

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

25.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In comradeship is danger countered best.