Friendship Quotes - Page 3

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

François de La Rochefoucauld

If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.

Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.

John Gay

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Euripides

Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

Anonymous

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

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

The Panchatantra

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Euripides

Tell me whom you frequent and I will tell you who you are.

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

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.

Johann von Goethe

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

The lion is ashamed it's true when he hunts with the fox.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

Solomon

Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.

Anonymous

One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Henry David Thoreau

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?

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

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Miguel de Cervantes

Have but few friends though many acquaintances.

Anonymous

Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.

John Hay

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.

Lord Chesterfield

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

William Hazlitt

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.

Socrates

Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.

Sir Thomas Browne

Books and friends should be few but good.

Anonymous

Sudden friendship sure repentance.

Anonymous

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

Walter Savage Landor

Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.

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.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

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

Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not.

Bible

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

A new friend is like new wine when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.

Apocrypha

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

S. Weir Mitchell

Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.

I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.

Frank A. Vanderlip

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

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