Quotes about friendship
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. Oprah Winfrey
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
friendship favors vices
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
friendship dog money
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. Kinky Friedman
friendship forever comes-and-goes
Friendships come and go, but families are forever.... Kenny Rogers
friendship opportunity enemy
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. Margaret Thatcher
friendship good-friend may
one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ... Margaret Cavendish
friendship inspirational-life real-friends
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. Mark Twain
friendship inspiration perfect
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
friendship happiness marriage
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
friendship communication eye
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.