Quotes by American Authors - Page 167

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
Gabrielle Reece
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
William James
Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Kathleen Norris
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Woodrow Wilson
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin
Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.
John Hay
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day in day out with people one does not like and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?
Ruth Benedict
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
Henry David Thoreau
Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley
Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
Frank A. Vanderlip
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
S. Weir Mitchell
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
George Santayana
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.
Florence H. Winterburn
Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess
Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.
Robert E. Frederick
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis Marion Crawford
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Anaïs Nin
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures such a smile if the artful but know it is the greatest weapon a face can have.
Helen Hunt Jackson
The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation one glance one hurt and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.
Gloria Naylor
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Scratch a lover and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
A man with few friends is only half-developed there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself he cannot even discover them friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph Bourne
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random write to one dine with one visit one or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand inspire and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George Matthew Adams
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
Margaret Culkin Banning
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain