Friendship
206 quotes: 38 by Keith Craft, 168 from other voices.
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- Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
- Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.
- Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- The best way to identify a great friend is how they react when you win.
- The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.Abraham LincolnSourced
- The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
- The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
- The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
- The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us.
- The years have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons--none wiser than this: to spend in all things else, but of old friends to be most miserly.
- There is no magic like a good turn, and the way to gain friendly feelings is to do friendly acts.
- There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.Edward Bulwer-LyttonSourced
- There is no man, that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
- There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.SocratesCommonly attributed
- There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
- There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
- There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves.
- Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his.
- To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.Samuel JohnsonSourced
- Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
- True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.
- True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow.
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George WashingtonSourced
- True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb ColtonSourced
- Trust no man as a friend till you have tried him.
- Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
- Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
- We cannot have too much trust in so good and faithful a Friend who will never fail us in this world nor in the next.
- We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues.
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
- We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.AristotleCommonly attributed
- Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few.
- When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship.
- When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
- When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.