Friendship Quotes

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.

There are worse words than cuss words there are words that hurt.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.

Flattery makes friends truth enemies.

Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.

Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

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

Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.

Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.

I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually by recounting our grief we can lighten each other's sorrow.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

Forget your woes when you see your friend.

Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.

When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing.

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

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

0 summer friendship whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity With the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better.

One enemy is too many a hundred friends too few.

Friends come and go enemies linger.

Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

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.

Scratch a lover and find a foe.

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by many qualities.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures such a smile if the artful but know it is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!