Famous Quotes - Tags - Friendship

  • ... friendship ... is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like... More
  • A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies. More
  • A man’s social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend... More
  • A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the... More
  • Although I’m trying very hard
    To sound unlike a birthday card,
    That’s all this is: so... More
  • As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship. More
  • Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. More
  • But who walks with Him? dares to take His arm,
    To slap Him on the shoulder, tweak His... More
  • Careful accounts make for long friendships. More
  • Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an... More
  • DEAR WALDO,—For I think I have heard that that is your name.... Whatever I may call you, I know... More
  • Do as adversaries do in law,
    Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. More
  • Even more important than a friendly meeting is a friendly parting. More
  • Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. More
  • Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they... More
  • Feste. The better for my foes and the worse for my friends.
    Orsino. Just the contrary: the... More
  • For near her stood the little boy
    Her childish favour singled:
    His cap pulled low upon a... More
  • Friends, I owe more tears
    To this dead man than you shall see me pay.
    I shall find time,... More
  • Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on... More
  • Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because... More
  • Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed;
    Never so few, and never yet more need. More
  • Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. More
  • He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. More
  • I am aware that I have been on many a man’s premises, and might have been legally ordered off,... More
  • I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When... More
  • I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly... More
  • I know of no one so patient and determined to have the good of you. It is almost friendship, such... More
  • I know only one person whom I could count on not to indulge herself in ... conventional... More
  • I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. More
  • I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
    All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the... More
  • I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a... More
  • I would build my house of crystal,
    With a solitary friend,
    Where the cold cracks like a... More
  • In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is... More
  • In my experience, persons, when they are made the subject of conversation, though with a Friend,... More
  • It is more shameful for a man to distrust his friends than to be deceived by them. More
  • It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I know its affinity and... More
  • It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;Mit is disposition alone. Seven years... More
  • It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. More
  • Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather... More
  • Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go... More
  • Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters... More
  • Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
    Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends. More
  • Love and be friends, as two such men should be. More
  • Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative... More
  • Marriage is the highest state of friendship: If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at... More
  • Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are... More
  • My heart doth joy that yet in all my life
    I found no man but he was true to me. More
  • Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work or friendship—two of life’s... More
  • Now thou and I are new in amity. More
  • One should still honor the enemy in his friend. Can you go up close to your friend without going... More
  • Ought we to smile,
    Perhaps make friends? No: in the race for seats
    You’re best alone.... More
  • Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. More
  • Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in... More
  • Suddenly I’m dogmatic. Why does my status change every time you get a new woman, Jack? More
  • Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair... More
  • The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most... More
  • The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat... More
  • The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand. More
  • The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. More
  • Then did they strive with emulation who should repeat most wise maxims importing the necessity of... More
  • There are only two or three couples in history. More
  • There is flattery in friendship. More
  • They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies. More
  • Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and... More
  • To place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each... More
  • Two in distress ... make sorrow less. More
  • We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts... More
  • We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish... More
  • We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship. More
  • What compact mean you to have with us?
    Will you be pricked in number of our friends,
    Or... More
  • What if God were to confide in us for a moment! Should we not then be gods? More
  • What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh
    Keep in a little life? Poor Jack,... More
  • Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don’t get on very well with the... More
  • While fortune smiles, you’ll count your friends by scores;
    If the sky clouds over, you will... More
  • With clothes, the newer, the better; with friends, the older, the better. More
  • With rue my heart is laden
    For golden friends I had,
    For many a rose-lipt maiden
    And... More
  • Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not... More
  • You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy. More
  • You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few... More

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