Friendship Quotes - Page 25

• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Marriage, Real

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• It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Kind, Audience

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter (The Gresham Chronicles Book #2)”, p.262, Baker Books

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• For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Return, Know How

  Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

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• My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Design, Aspiration, Labor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.800, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Relationship, Children

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

  Alexander Pope

  Dear Friend, Absent, Stills

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.156

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• Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

  A.J. Cronin

  Circles, Routine, Social

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• You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

  Robert Breault

  Thinking, Needs, Done

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• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friends, Praise, Admonish

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• Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Mother, Skills, Nurse

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• Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

  Katherine Philips

  Strong, Passion, Angel

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• For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

  Sophocles

  Love Is, Cast Away, One Love

  Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

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• All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

  Taylor Swift

  Needs, Like Me, My Friends

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• We die as often as we lose a friend.

  Publilius Syrus

  Feelings, Dies, Loses

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• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Demand, Ability, Conditions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.49, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Every girl needs a bestfriend to
  help her laugh when she thinks
  she`ll never smile again

  Cassie Ventura

  Girl, Thinking, Laughing

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• There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Demand, Honest, Great Friend

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Popularity, Casts, Packs

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.217

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• Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, War, Men

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• I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

  Cher

  Trust, Encouragement, People

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

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• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Agreement, Delight, Cute Friendship

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

  Thomas Fuller

  True Friend, Share, More Than Friends

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• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Writing, Family And Friends, Toil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1965). “The house of the seven gables”

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Travel, Fear, Strangers And Friends

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Time, Pain

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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