Friendship Historical Quotes
" "Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.""
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
"Keep your friendships in repair."
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
"If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!"
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
"Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'?"
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
"These are called the pious frauds of friendship."
"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
"Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince."
"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
"My friends are my estate."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
"The bird a nest,the spider a web,man friendship."
"Friendship is love without his wings"
"Friendship is love with wings."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.A watery way an instant seen,The darkly closing clouds between."
"... no man is uselesswhile he has a friend."
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends."
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
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