Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Ones oldest friend is the best.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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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.

2.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

3.

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

4.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

5.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

6.

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

7.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

8.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

9.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

10.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

11.

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

12.

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

13.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

14.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

15.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

19.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

20.

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

Tate, Nahum

21.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

24.

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

27.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

28.

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

Proverb, Russian

29.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

30.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

31.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

32.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

33.

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

34.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

35.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.