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Friends and friendship

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Talmud, The

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.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.