Friendship Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Aristotle,
Lois McMaster Bujold,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Oscar Wilde
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| 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 |
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| Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. |
| - Aristotle |
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| The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. |
| - Aristotle |
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| What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. |
| - Aristotle |
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| Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. |
| - Aristotle |
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| Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A good friend is cheaper than therapy. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The best time to make friends is before you need them. |
| - Ethel Barrymore |
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| It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. |
| - Lawana Blackwell |
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| The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. |
| - William Blake |
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| It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. |
| - William Blake |
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| I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. |
| - Robert Brault |
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| A good friend of my son's is a son to me. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Adversity does teach who your real friends are. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. |
| - Leo Buscaglia |
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| Friendship is Love, without his wings. |
| - Lord Byron |
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| 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. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| 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 |
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| Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. |
| - Cicero |
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| The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. |
| - Cicero |
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| It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. |
| - Colette |
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| In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. |
| - John Churton Collins |
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| Have no friends not equal to yourself. |
| - Confucius |
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| It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. |
| - Marlene Dietrich |
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| It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. |
| - Marlene Dietrich |
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| I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| All people want is someone to listen. |
| - Hugh Elliott |
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| A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. |
| - Epicurus |
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| Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |
| - Carl G. Jung |
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| A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. |
| - Arnold Glasow |
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| A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. |
| - Arnold Glasow |
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| Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. |
| - Francesco Guicciardini |
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| Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. |
| - Dag Hammarskjold |
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| Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. |
| - William Hazlitt |
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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. 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, Sr. Holmes |
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| Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. |
| - Edgar Watson Howe |
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| Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. |
| - Edgar Watson Howe |
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| The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| The friendship that can cease has never been real. |
| - Saint Jerome |
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| 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 |
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| Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. |
| - Franklin P. Jones |
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| The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. |
| - D.H. Lawrence |
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| It takes a long time to grow an old friend. |
| - John Leonard |
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| Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. |
| - C.S. Lewis |
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| We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. |
| - Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. |
| - George Macdonald |
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| I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. |
| - Katherine Mansfield |
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| It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. |
| - Toni Morrison |
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| Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| 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 |
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| A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. |
| - Douglas Pagels |
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| Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. |
| - Dorothy Parker |
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| I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. |
| - William Penn |
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| Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. |
| - Samuel Pepys |
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| You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. |
| - Laurence J. Peter |
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| Friends have all things in common. |
| - Plato |
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| Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. |
| - Titus Maccius Plautus |
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| I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. |
| - Plutarch |
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| Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. |
| - Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
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| When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. |
| - Japanese Proverb |
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| Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. |
| - Czech Proverb |
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| Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. |
| - American Proverb |
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| Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. |
| - Margaret Lee Runbeck |
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| Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. |
| - Saadi |
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| The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. |
| - Sallust |
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| One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. |
| - George Santayana |
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| In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| We are advertis'd by our loving friends. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. |
| - Socrates |
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| Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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| Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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| The language of friendship is not words but meanings. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. |
| - Thucydides |
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| There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. |
| - Rebecca West |
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| There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. |
| - Edith Wharton |
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| I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| True friends stab you in the front. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. |
| - Jeanette Winterson |
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| Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. |
| - Virginia Woolf |
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| A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. |
| - Lois Wyse |
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