Friendship Quotes - Page 30

• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

  Mencius

  Brother, True Friend, Sibling

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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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• Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

  James Joyce

  Love Is, Men, Impossible

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1536, e-artnow

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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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• 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 best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

  Hojo Soun

  Reading, Writing, Men

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

  Jennifer Chen

  Differences, Appreciate, Giving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Heart, Evil

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Fake People, Hurt, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.439, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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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• Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Spring, New Friends

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

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