Friendship Quotes - Page 6

Flattery makes friends truth enemies.

Spanish Proverb

Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Ouida

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Madame Dorothee Deluzy

A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

Sophie Irene Loeb

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

Anonymous

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Turkish Proverb

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Publilius Syrus

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.

Edgar Watson Howe

Love your friend with his fault.

Anonymous

It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean de La Bruyère

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

Ned Rorem

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

William Hazlitt

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

To be social is to be forgiving.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

François de La Rochefoucauld

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann von Goethe

The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

Camillo Di Cavour

It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love.

Mark Rutherford

Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Aristotle

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Anonymous

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.

Baltasar Gracián

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Chinese Proverb

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Sir Walter Scott

Fond as we are of our loved ones there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Ann Shaw

Friendship increases in visiting friends but not in visiting them too often.

Anonymous

Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.

George E. Woodberry

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

John Muir

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elizabeth Foley

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

Scottish Proverb

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

Anonymous

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

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

You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

Anonymous

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

William Shakespeare

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them that we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother

If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Louisa May Alcott

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readiness to aid to help to stick to fight for if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

William Feather

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