Motivational Quotes

Friendship

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Friendship

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

Randy K. Milholland

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

You donÆt get to pick your own nickname. TheyÆve gotta give you one. ItÆs like weÆre all tryinÆ to make pets out of each other and weÆre not comfortable unless we get to name æem.

Laura Moncur

Friends have all things in common.

Plato

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Sallust

There isnÆt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arenÆt really living without it.

Real Live Preacher

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Pierre Charron

10.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

11.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

12.

All people want is someone to listen.

Hugh Elliott

13.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

14.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

15.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

16.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

17.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

Laura Moncur

19.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

20.

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies'fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

Stephanie Barron

21.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Jay Leno

22.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

23.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

24.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

25.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Madame de Tencin

26.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

28.

Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

David Nicholls

29.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

30.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

31.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones

32.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

33.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

34.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

37.

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

38.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

David Shore

39.

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Colleen Wainwright

40.

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

41.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Lawana Blackwell

42.

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

44.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome

45.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero

46.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette

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Have no friends not equal to yourself.