Friendship Quotes - Page 34

• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  William Powell

  Inspirational, Real Friends, Math

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• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Secret, Secrecy, Chastity

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.569

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• When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

  Ville Valo

  My Best Friend, Music Is, Heard

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• I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Bad Friend, Funny Friend, Emotional

  Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “The History Man”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

  Hugh Allen

  Two Friends, Silence, Arguing

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• But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

  George MacDonald

  Sweet, Money, Powerful

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.451, e-artnow

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• Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

  Unknown

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

  Harry S. Truman

  Best Friend, God, Hard Work

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• A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Reflection, Expression

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.50

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• Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Want, Shields, Environment

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• friendship is love made bearable.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Made, Bearable

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.471, Bantam

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• Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

  John Vanbrugh

  Nice, Roots, Growth

  Sir John Vanbrugh (1970). “The relapse”

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• When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Destiny, Cry, Friends

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• I guess a man's best friend is his mother.

  Vina Delmar

  Friends, Mother, Men

  "Fictional character: Daniel Leeson". "The Awful Truth", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, History, Political

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Once you pledge, don't hedge.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Pledge

  Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”

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• Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

  Richard Steele

  Dresses, Matter, Should

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.49

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• Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

  Norman Douglas

  Home, Men, Thinking

  South Wind (1917) ch. 20

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• Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

  Arlene Francis

  Real, Trouble, Bigs

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• The only rose without thorns is friendship.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Real, Rose, Thorns

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• Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

  Catiline

  True Friend, Real, Agreement

  "Sallust: The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha". Book by Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Book XX, part 4, 2013.

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• Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Gratitude, Photograph, Fades

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• Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

  Frederic Farrar

  Errors, Faithful, May

  Frederic William Farrar (1868). “The Fall of Man, and Other Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge, Etc”, p.366

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  True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

  Bob Marley

  Stars, True Friend, Dark

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