Quotes by Authors - Page 172

Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
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
I have always differentiated between two types of friends those who want proofs of friendship and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.
Gérard de Nerval
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Brontë
Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.
Jean-Henri Fabre
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Anonymous
111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Jonathan Swift
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
C.S. Lewis
Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.
Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
Thomas Fuller
If I wanted to become a tramp I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things I would look around me for those who are succeeding and do as they have done.
Joseph Marshall Wade
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
Anonymous
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Thomas Fuller
Sudden friendship sure repentance.
Anonymous
Books and friends should be few but good.
Anonymous
Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.
Sir Thomas Browne
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.
Lord Chesterfield
Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.
John Hay
Have but few friends though many acquaintances.
Anonymous
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
S. Weir Mitchell
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
The best mirror is an old friend.
Anonymous
Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess
Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.
Horace Walpole
To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!
Hannah Moore
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
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
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
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
Mary Webb
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
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
A.J. Cronin
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
Friends come and go enemies linger.
Anonymous
One enemy is too many a hundred friends too few.
Anonymous
Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better.
Edgar Watson Howe
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
Cokie Roberts
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey