Quotes about friends and friendship

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."

Saying, Jewish on friends and friendship   

"Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on friends and friendship   

"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on friends and friendship   

"You can't eat your friends and have them too."

Schulberg, Budd on friends and friendship   

"If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others."

Scott, Sir Walter on friends and friendship   

"Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet."

Selden, John on friends and friendship   

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"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship   

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship   

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

Shaw, George Bernard on friends and friendship
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"But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

Shaw, George Bernard on friends and friendship   

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall on friends and friendship   

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on friends and friendship
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Socrates on friends and friendship
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"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

Southey, Robert on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on friends and friendship
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"A friend is a present you give to yourself."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship
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"No man is useless while he has a friend."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship   

"The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship
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"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship   

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."

Storey, David on friends and friendship
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"I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on friends and friendship
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"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."

Strindberg, J. August on friends and friendship   

"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. on friends and friendship   

"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on friends and friendship
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"Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail."

Swift, Jonathan on friends and friendship   

"Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires."

Swift, Jonathan on friends and friendship   

"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship   

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"We die as often as we lose a friend."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship
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"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship   

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

Talmud, The on friends and friendship   

"Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave."

Talmud, The on friends and friendship   

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

Tate, Nahum on friends and friendship   

"He makes no friends who never made a foe."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on friends and friendship   

"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

Terence on friends and friendship
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"Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs."

Thackeray, William M. on friends and friendship