Friendship Quotes - Page 30

• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

  Mencius

  Brother, True Friend, Sibling

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• Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

  Max Elliott Slade

  Heart, Caring, Self

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• To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.

  Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

  Vanity, Earth, Interest

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• The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mean, Depth, Share

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• Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

  Bion of Smyrna

  Love, Flames, Equal

  Bion of Smyrna, “Friendship”

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• The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

  Doug Larson

  Cat, Animal, Men

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• Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thinking, Negative, Lasts

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• No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Likes, Remember

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• You can't make someone be your best friend.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Your Best Friend, Be Your Best

  "Nasty, nasty girls" by Margaret Talbot, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2002.

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• Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours.

  Jennifer Chen

  Differences, Appreciate, Giving

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• Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Judging, Delight

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• True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, True Friend, Envy

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• Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Traffic, Propose

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• Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Real, Silence, Funny Friendship

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• A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

  John Newton

  Real, Space, Separation

  John Newton (2009). “廿一世纪完全作人原则: The English-Traditional Chinese Page to Page Correspondence Display Edition, Useful for Learning Chinese”, p.260, Nicer Century World Publishing

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• Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

  H. L. Mencken

  Belief, Common, Fallacy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

  J. K. Bharavi

  Fall, Crumbling, Shade

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• That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Given, Circumstances

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• In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

  Lauren Bacall

  World, Complicated, Uncommon

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• Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Money, Doe

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• There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Marriage, Husband, Differences

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• Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thinking, Advice, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Soul, Looks

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• The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

  John Quincy Adams

  Life, Relationship, Positive

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• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Believe, Real Friends

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

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