Friendship Quotes - Page 31

• The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

  John Marsden

  Inspiring Love, Tests, Friends Forever

  John Marsden (2010). “Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles 3: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.182, Pan Australia

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• We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Trust, Fear, Simple

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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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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• 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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• I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Real Friends, Giving, Might

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Real friends stab you in the front.

  Jonathan Davis

  Im Sorry, True Friend, Real

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• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Giving, Debt

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, God, Book

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Shade of His Hand: Talks on the Book of Ecclesiastes”, p.82, Discovery House

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• The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

  Mason Cooley

  New Friends, Found, Advantage

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• In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.

  Tom Monaghan

  Daughter, Dog, Believe

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• Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

  Robert Breault

  True Friend, Real, Lying

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• The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Needs, Way, False Friends

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• There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Destiny, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

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• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love Is, Like Love, Long

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.89

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• But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

  Charlotte Charke

  Alas, Misfortunes

  Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”

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• If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Abuse, Ifs

  'The Critic' (1779) act 1, sc. 1

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• Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.

  Joan Frank

  Independent, Roots, Coal

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• Friendship buys friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Depth, Length, Valuable

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• Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, Serious, Majestic Beauty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.273

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• And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.

  Carrie Jacobs-Bond

  Self, Perfect Days, Soul

  Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond (1940). “The End-of-the-road”

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