Quotes about friends and friendship

"Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship   

"The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship   

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship   

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship
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"There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship   

"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on friends and friendship
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"Never deceive a friend."

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"The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority."

Hitopadesa on friends and friendship   

"Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."

Hoffer, Eric on friends and friendship
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"However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."

Hoffer, Eric on friends and friendship   

"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."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on friends and friendship
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"The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it."

Holz, Julie on friends and friendship
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"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."

Home, Henry on friends and friendship
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"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."

Homer on friends and friendship   

"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."

Homer on friends and friendship
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"Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better."

Howe, Edgar Watson on friends and friendship
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"Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism."

Howe, Edgar Watson on friends and friendship   

"It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it."

Howe, Edgar Watson on friends and friendship   

"When 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."

Howe, Edgar Watson on friends and friendship   

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

Hsieh, Tehyi on friends and friendship
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"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship   

"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on friends and friendship
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."

Iacocca, Lee on friends and friendship
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"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia."

James, William on friends and friendship
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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 of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

Jefferson, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."

Jefferson, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

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"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."

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"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are."

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic'' on friends and friendship
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair."

Johnson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."

Johnson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety."

Johnson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"The endearing elegance of female friendship."

Johnson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"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 on friends and friendship   

"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal."

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"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."

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"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving."

Jong, Erica on friends and friendship