Quotes by Writers - Page 23

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
Publilius Syrus
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Samuel Johnson
Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.
Samuel Johnson
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.
François de La Rochefoucauld
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel Johnson
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Samuel Johnson
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Vera Brittain
Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
Ouida
A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
François de La Rochefoucauld
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.
Norman Douglas
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Publilius Syrus
Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.
Joseph Roux
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
Samuel Johnson
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.
Samuel Johnson
Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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
Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb Colton
A friend must not be injured even in jest.
Syrus
Reprove your friends in secret praise them openly.
Syrus
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
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.
François de La Rochefoucauld
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Prosperity makes few friends.
Vauvenargues
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Goethe
It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.
La Rochefoucauld
A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
Agnes Macphail
Forgive others often yourself never.
Syrus
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton
I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
Jean Francois Regnard
You can't appreciate home until you've left it money till it's spent your wife till she's joined a woman's club nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
o.henry
Mankind by the perverse depravity of their nature esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
Francois de Fenelon
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracián
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr