429 private quotes tagged friendship

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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.

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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