Quotes by Poets - Page 60

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
Jean de La Fontaine
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
Susan Griffin
To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann von Goethe
Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.
Joseph Roux
My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.
George E. Woodberry
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
May Sarton
The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
Sir Walter Scott
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
William Shakespeare
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Joy Harjo
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
Don Marquis
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
Jane Taylor
All love that has not friendship for its base Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One can find traces of every life in each life.
Susan Griffin
If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
My life seems to have become suddenly hollow and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.
John Addington Symonds
Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.
Spencer M. Free
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
William Blake
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Alexander Pope
True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.
Emily Dickinson
Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
A cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
Eliza Cook
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
Rupert Brooke
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
D.H. Lawrence
We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
Eliza Cook
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.
John Dryden
He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.
Malik Muhammad Jayasi
As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Ovid
I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Richard Graves
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good you must a hundred try.
Claude Mermet
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.
Jacques Delille
So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.
Homer
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Homer
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
Homer