429 private quotes tagged friendship

“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.” — Jean Cocteau

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“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.” — Chanakya

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“If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.” — Alice Duer Miller

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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” — Henri Nouwen

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“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.” — Sarah Orne Jewett

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“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” — Orson Welles

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“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich

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“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” — Jim Morrison

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“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.” — Sallust

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“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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

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“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.” — Charles Alexander Eastman

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

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

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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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“All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.” — Sallust

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