Friendship
206 quotes: 38 by Keith Craft, 168 from other voices.
Other voices on Friendship
- False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.Christian Nestell BoveeCommonly attributed
- For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.SophoclesCommonly attributed
- Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
- Friends are born, not made.Henry AdamsSourced
- Friends are proved by adversity.
- Friends should be weighed, not told.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCommonly attributed
- Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
- Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do.
- Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
- Friendship depends on trust and trust grows when we live our lives honestly and sincerely, cultivating respect and concern for others.
- Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
- Friendship ... flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity.Étienne de la BoétieCommonly attributed
- Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
- Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
- Friendship is a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCommonly attributed
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
- Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.
- Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own.
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
- Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's all about the friend who comes and stands by your side in bad times.
- Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.CiceroCommonly attributed
- Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor RooseveltSourced
- Friendships are discovered rather than made.
- Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
- Gold knows how to be tested by fire, and loyalty among friends is tested when a crisis comes.
- He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
- He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Yet some think their conceits, like mustard, not good except they bite.
- He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
- He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
- Here's how you can tell someone is your friend: A) You can tell them bad news, and they'll listen. B) You can tell them good news, and they'll help you celebrate.Jordan PetersonSourced
- I am for frank explanations with friends in cases of affronts. They sometimes save a perishing friendship, and even place it on a firmer basis than at first; but secret discontent must always end badly.
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.Helen KellerCommonly attributed
- If 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.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.VauvenarguesSourced
- If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.
- If we would improve our minds by conversation, it is a great happiness to be acquainted with persons wiser than ourselves.
- If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.Zig ZiglarSourced
- In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.