Friendship Love Quotes - Page 3

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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• I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Friendship, Real Friends, Simple

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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  "The Works of Charles Lamb".

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  No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Patience

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• 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, Friendship

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

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Friendship, Christmas

  "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Patience, Cousin

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.258, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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