Friendship Quotes - Page 12

• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, True Friend

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Positive, Boyfriend

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

  Sallust

  Likes And Dislikes, Identity, Likes

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• From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Motivational, Best Friend, True Friend

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

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• Friends are proved by adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Adversity, Feelings

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Real Friends, Hands

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• A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

  Charles Darwin

  Wisdom, Men, Eulogy

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

  George MacDonald

  Trust, Tragedy, Love Relationship

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4026, e-artnow

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• Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

  Merle Shain

  World, Might, Window

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• Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Food, Eternity

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.307

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• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Nature, Real Friends

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

  James Boswell

  Men, People, Familiar

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• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Real Friends, Losing Friends, Making Friends

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Disappointment, Loneliness

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2015

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• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

  Socrates

  Art, Fall, Firm

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Apotheosis, Return

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.192, Xist Publishing

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Teamwork

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• My friends are my estate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Wine, Funny Friend

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• Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

  Judy Holliday

  Betrayed, Lovers, Friend Betrayal

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• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

  Charles Kingsley

  True Friend, Mean, Being True

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Best Friend, Relationship, Anniversary

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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