Friendship: Friendship Quotes

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"And say my glory was I had such friends"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"So long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"A friend is a gift you give yourself"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"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"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"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, President

George Washington

"Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it"

Horace, Poet

"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you, but my friends never leave me"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"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, Critic

William Hazlitt

"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

Margaret Thatcher

"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

Mao Tse-Tung

"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers, it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him, and the latter take him to task"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

Diogenes of Sinope

"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

Diogenes of Sinope

"I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me"

Jerry Hall, Model

Jerry Hall

"I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work"

Jerry Hall, Model

Jerry Hall

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