429 private quotes tagged friendship

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” — Mencius

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“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” — John Leonard

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“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” — George MacDonald

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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf

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“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” — King Solomon

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“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” — Eugene Kennedy

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“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” — Francesco Guicciardini

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“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” — Washington Irving

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“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.” — Euripides

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“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.” — George Jean Nathan

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“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.” — Emil Ludwig

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“Friends are born, not made.” — Henry Adams

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“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.” — Honore de Balzac

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“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” — George Santayana

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“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” — E. W. Howe

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“Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.” — E. W. Howe

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“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.” — Samuel Pepys

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“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.” — Francis Quarles

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“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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