Friendship Quotes - Page 9

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Prosperity is not just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made.

Carrie Jacobs Bond

Love is like the wild-rose briar Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Spanish Proverb

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.

The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble and then not worth much after you get it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Mary Russell Mitford

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.

Vincent van Gogh

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

True friendship is never serene.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times however avoid friends who sympathize too deeply who give us pity rather than strength.

D. Lupton

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Charles Caleb Colton

Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Søren Kierkegaard

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

A friend is never known till a man has need.

Anonymous

As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.

Malik Muhammad Jayasi

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.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

Honoré de Balzac

Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Bertrand Russell

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Iron sharpeneth man so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Bible

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.

G.K. Chesterton

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Mignon McLaughlin

In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Goethe

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.

Marshall de Villars

Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.

Robert C. Edwards

It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.

La Rochefoucauld

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

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

Anonymous

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

There are formalities between the closest of friends.

Japanese Proverb

If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.

Michel de Montaigne

Of my friends I am the only one I have left.

Terence

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Benjamin Disraeli

My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

Warren G. Harding

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Alfred

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 save oh save me from the candid friend!

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