| “Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
"Keep your friendships in repair."
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
"If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!"
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
"Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'?"
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
"These are called the pious frauds of friendship."
"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
"Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince."
"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
"My friends are my estate."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
"The bird a nest,
"Friendship is love without his wings"
"Friendship is love with wings." "Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
"... no man is useless
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
"The best mirror is an old friend."
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
"I count myselt in nothing else so happy
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
"Friends have all things in common."
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
"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."
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
"Do not save your loving speeches
"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
"A friend is, as it were, a second self.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the true sourse of art, science, and friendship."
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
"The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
"In a friend you find a second self."
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking foward to sharing time with them again."
"Ah, how good it feels...the hand of an old friend"
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."
"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
"... no man is useless
"Never shall i forget the days i spent with you . continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."
The following five quotes were sent in by Handan
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
" 'Stay' is a charming word in a friends vocabulary."
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
"Friendship? Yes Please."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Friendship Quotes
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