Quotes about friends
friendship july letters
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
friends distrust deceived
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
friendship self office
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
friendship true-friend possession
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
friendship best-friend misfortunes
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
friends men self
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
friendship soul understanding
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.
friendship heart sincerity
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
friendship vanity littles
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
friendship failing sincerity
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
friendship gratitude kindness
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
friendship opposites grace
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
friendship self judging
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
friendship perfect taste
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.
friendship self traffic
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
friends religious people
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
friends self judging
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
friends regret grief
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
friends men self
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
friends thinking self
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. Francis Quarles
friendship family im-sorry
Friends are God's apology for relations.
friendship dog betrayed
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. Horace Walpole
friends wise kings
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. Horace
friends men intimate
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]
friendship race soul
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. Homer
friendship two-friends soul
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
friendship hate passion
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.
friendship family government
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. Hubert H. Humphrey
friendship best-friend real-friends
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac
friends dog true-friend
On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.
friendship thinking lasts
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
friendship cutting knives
You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting. James Brown
friendship wine should
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed. James Boswell