Friendship Love Quotes - Page 3

• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

  Douglas Pagels

  Friendship, Cute, Best Friend

  Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  "The Works of Charles Lamb".

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• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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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

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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  No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Patience, Cousin

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.258, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Friendship, Christmas

  "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• The best mirror is an old friend.

  George Herbert

  Friendship, Patience, Real Friends

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

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• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Patience

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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