Quotes about friend
friendship thinking prejudice
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others. William Hazlitt
friendship meat cold
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. William Hazlitt
friendship faults
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt
friendship true-friend fear
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt
friendship breakup promise
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt
friendship embalming corpses
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt
friendship vanity amusement
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. William Hazlitt
friends long forget
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them. William Hazlitt
friendship children ties
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children. William Hazlitt
friendship age youth
The youth is better than the old age of friendship. William Hazlitt
friendship true-friend hands
True friendship is self-love at second-hand. William Hazlitt
friends character common
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. William Hazlitt
friendship substance gone
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
friendship feelings desire
In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing. Walter Raleigh
friendship wise art
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors. Walter Raleigh
friendship ties people
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever. W. Somerset Maugham
friendship men joy
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. Willa Cather
friendship love-you
I love you and I'm here for you. Will Smith
friendship track facts
If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back. Will Smith
friendship laughter honesty
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. Vincent Van Gogh
friendship people spirit
People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits. Wayne Dyer
friendship women book
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf
friendship best-friend real-friends
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf
friendship enemy protect
O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies. William Blake
friendship anger wrath
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake
friendship artist true-friendship
Opposition is true friendship. William Blake
friendship loyalty heart
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake. William Blake
friendship best-friend happiness
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
friendship forgiveness depressing
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
friendship love-is flames
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof. Samuel Richardson
friendly may sake
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. Samuel Richardson
friendship easier made
Friends are like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
friends should boast
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. Samuel Taylor Coleridge