Quotes about friends
friendship success inspirational-love
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.. Oprah Winfrey
friendship names proud
You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend...
friendship self people
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
friendship popularity packs
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Oliver Goldsmith
friendship mind sorrow
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
friendship disappointment tired
O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
friends blessing dwelling
Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
friendship book reading
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
friendship absent-friends absent
Friends, though absent, are still present. Marcus Tullius Cicero
friendship irritation giving
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
friends adversity world
All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
friendship ornaments remove
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
friendship true-friend adversity
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
friendship laughter heart
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
friendship salt common
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]
friendship grief adversity
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
friendship support nature-love
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.
friendship kindness
Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.
friends sake dare
They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.
friends perfect faithful
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.
friends ties unity
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
friends true-friend self
A true friend is a sort of second self.
friendship wise views
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.
friendship friends adversity
Friends are proved by adversity.
friendship loyalty
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
friendship fire hands
Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.
friendship sympathy mean
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
friendship best-friend men
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
friendship philosophical cat
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
friends real circumstances
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
friendship tests reliability
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
friendship philosophical jest
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
friendship world mankind
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.