Friendship Quotes - Page 5

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

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

Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.

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.

I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

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

Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Walter Savage Landor

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh the comfort the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words but pouring them all out just as they are chaff and grain together certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually by recounting our grief we can lighten each other's sorrow.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

Forget your woes when you see your friend.

Priscian

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing.

Anonymous

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Demetrius

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

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.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

Cicero

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Molière

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid because most people really like this contact that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Anonymous

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.

Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Henry David Thoreau

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.

Marshall McLuhan

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

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

Julius Charles Hare

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.

Francine du Plessix Gray

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Aristotle

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

Jennie Jerome Churchill

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Marian Wright Edelman

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.

Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Ouida

Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.

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

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.

Edgar Watson Howe

Friendship is honey but don't eat it all.

Moroccan proverb

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

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are worse words than cuss words there are words that hurt.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.

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