Friendship Quotes - Page 39

• A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

  James Boswell

  Love, Real, Men

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• Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Men, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

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• Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

  Charles Peguy

  Real, Love Is, Genius

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.

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• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gratitude, Real, Errors

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• Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Real, Unique, Thank God

  "Failure: the Back Door to Success".

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• A joy shared is a joy doubled.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Real Friends, Joy

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• Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Falling In Love, Real, Profound

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cousin, Powerful, Real

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Self Respect, Self Knowledge

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Believe, Mean

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Birthday, Giving Up, Real

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• We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Real, Thoughtful, Matter

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• What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

  Robert Breault

  Real, Taken, Asks

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• One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

  Henry Adams

  Real, Two, Community

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Between friends there is no need of justice.

  Aristotle

  Real, Justice, Needs

  Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.508

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• Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lost Friendship, Biting, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Real, Love Is, Play

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Real, Tyrants

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Real, Existence, Friends

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• Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

  Ovid

  Real, Names, Real Friends

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• What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Thinking, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

  Walker Percy

  Love, Real, Faces

  Walker Percy (2011). “Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

  Edward Abbey

  Betrayal, Fall, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends.

  Larry Flynt

  Mother, Hate, Good Friend

  "Larry Flynt's Official Response to Jerry Falwell's Death". Pine Magazine, May 16, 2007.

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• Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Different, Different Things, Comradeship

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