Famous Friendship
Quotes
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"A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of
Nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet essayist.
"Keep your friendships in repair."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (as above)
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to
have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can
afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my
enemy for friendship's sake."
- William Blake
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee
what thou art."
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
- Confucius (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.
"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet.
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances
through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep
his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexicographer.
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of
friends, but in their worth and choice."
- Samuel Johnston, (as above)
"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to
be deceived by them."
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) French writer.
"If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it
from one damned good-natured friend or other!"
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) British dramatist.
"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 (1732 - 1799) US Statesman.
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must
undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the
appellation."
- George Washington, (as above)
"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the
expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
- George Washington, (as above)
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought
to min'?"
- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) Scottish poet.
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as
the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (341 - 270 BC) Greek philosopher.
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as
the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (as above)
"These are called the pious frauds of friendship."
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754) British novelist.
"Always, Sir, set a 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 Johnston (1709 - 1784) British lexicographer.
"Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do
not make a new acquaintance."
- Samuel Johnston, (as above)
"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed
true friendship."
- Sallust (86 - 334 BC) Roman historian
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides, Greek playwright
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in,
continue firm and constant."
- Socrates, Greek Philosopher
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the
world together"
- Woodrow Wilson
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's
success."
- Oscar Wilde
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade."
- William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because
without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I
know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
"The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship."
- William Blake
"Friendship is love without his wings"
- Lord Byron
"Friendship is love with wings."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott
"... no man is useless while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say
my glory was I had such friends."
- William Yeats
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full
value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always
leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the
most intimate friendship."
- Cicero
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer
it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the
brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their
contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to
sustain me in an altered world."
- Helen Keller
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome
"I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul
remembering my good friends."
- William Shakespeare
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new,
ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For,
thus friends absent speak."
- John Donne
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged,
accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly
"Friends have all things in common."
- Plato
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he
had all other goods."
- Aristotle
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me."
- Henry Ford
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the
best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale
"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave
your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready
enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his
friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in
loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
- Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen
by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in
winter."
- James Fenimore Cooper
"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are
cannibals of their own hearts."
- Fracis Bacon
"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare
and beautiful things in life."
- James Francis Byrnes
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning
the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
- Cicero
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with
the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or
frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
"True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
- Alexander Pope
"A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Cicero
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious, it is the true source of art, science, and friendship."
- Albert Einstein
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but
in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things,
the greater part of life is sunshine."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray.
Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."
- Hilda Brett Farr
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like
a mansion built upon the sand."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"In a friend you find a second self."
- Isabelle Norton
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than
walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller
"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking
forward to sharing time with them again."
- Lee Wilkinson
"Ah, how good it feels...the hand of an old friend"
- Mary Englebright
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping
still."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
- Aristotle
"Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far
it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of
pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
- Francis Bacon
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning
the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
- Cicero
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with
the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or
frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and
do one's job."
- Edith Wharton
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott
"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you .
continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."
-Benjamin Franklin -
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"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
-Benjamin Franklin
" 'Stay' is a charming word in a friends vocabulary."
-Louisa Mary Alcott [1832-1888], American writer, reformist
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we
somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
-William Arthur Ward
"Friendship? Yes Please."
-Charles Dickens -
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Lyrics of Friendship;
Days of Old Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of auld lang syne?
And days of auld lang syne, my dear,
And days of auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of auld lang syne?
We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pu'd the gowans fine.
We've wandered mony a weary foot,
Sin' auld lang syne.
Sin' auld lang syne, my dear,
Sin' auld lang syne,
We've wandered mony a weary foot,
Sin' auld ang syne.
We twa hae sported i' the burn,
From morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roared
Sin' auld lang syne.
Sin' auld lang syne, my dear,
Sin' auld lang syne.
But seas between us braid hae roared
Sin' auld lang syne.
And ther's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
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