Friendship

(122 votes)   If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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(122 votes)   It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(121 votes)   Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

George Jean Nathan
1882-1958, American Critic

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(121 votes)   One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(121 votes)   Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Grace Noll Crowell

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(120 votes)   I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(120 votes)   Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(120 votes)   Short judgments make long friends.

Proverbs

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(120 votes)   Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake.

William Blake

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(119 votes)   A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

St. Jerome
c.342-420, Croatian Christian Ascetic, Scholar

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(119 votes)   A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverbs

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(119 votes)   Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

The Dhammapada

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(119 votes)   Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(118 votes)   Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(118 votes)   Your friendship is your needs answered.

Danish Proverb
Sayings of Danish Origin

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