FRIENDSHIP

Related Subjects: Acquaintance, Affection, Associates, Brotherhood, Companionship, Conviviality, Familiarity, Guests, Hospitality, Love, Neighbor, Warmth

1. A friend in power is a friend lost.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

2. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

3. Little friends may prove great friends.—AESOP, The Lion and the Mouse
   

4. A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
   

5. Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
   

6. My friends! There are no friends.—ARISTOTLE
   

7. The perfect friendship of two men is the deepest and highest sentiment of which the finite mind is capable; women miss the best in life.—GERTRUDE ATHERTON, The Conqueror
   

8. Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."—BACON, Apothegms
   

9. Friends, they say, are the thieves of time.—BACON
   

10. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.—Bible, Proverbs 18:24
    

11. Gif ye want ae friend that's true, I'm on your list.—BURNS, First Epistle to J. Lapraik
    

12. The social, friendly, honest man,
    Whate'er he be,
    'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan,
    And none but he.—BURNS, Second Epistle to J. Lapraik
    

13. Friendship is Love without his wings.—BYRON, L'Amitie est l'Amour sans Ailes
    

14. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.—DALE CARNEGIE, How to Win Friends
    

15. It is a true saying, that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

16. Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.—LORD CHESTERFIELD
    

17. Friends are good,—good if well chosen.—DEFOE
    

18. The only way to have a friend is to be one.—EMERSON, Friendship
    

19. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.—EMERSON, Friendship

20. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.—EMERSON, Friendship
    

21. Happy is the house that shelters a friend.—EMERSON, Friendship
    

22. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.—EMERSON, Friendship
    

23. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.—GOLDSMITH, The Good-Natur'd Man
    

24. There's never a bond, old friend, like this,—
    We have drunk from the same canteen!—C. G. HALPINE, The Canteen
    

25. Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
    But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.—O. W. HOLMES, No Time Like the Old Time
    

26. True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
    Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.—HOMER, Odyssey
    

27. True friends appear less mov'd than counterf elf;
    As men that truly grieve at funerals
    Are not so loud, as those that cry for hire.—HORACE, Ars Poetica
    

28. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.—THOMAS HUGHES
    

29. 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 JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

30. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
    

31. Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
    

32. If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.—LEWIS E. LAWES
    

33. How many friends I loved are gone!
    Death delicately takes the best:
    O Death, be careful of the rest!
    I cannot spare another one.—RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, How Many Friends
    

34. Each year to ancient friendships adds a ring
    As to an oak.—LOWELL, Under the Willows
    

35. You ask me "why I like him." Nay,
    I cannot; nay, I would not, say.
    I think it vile to pigeonhole
    The pros and cons of a kindred soul.—E. V. LUCAS, Friends
    

36. Women, like princes, find few real friends.—LORD LYTTELTON, Advice to a Lady
    

37. One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be lifelong. The fact is that a man of resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs and his politics.—H. L. MENCKEN, Selected Prejudices
    

38. Friend after friend departs;
    Who hath not lost a friend?
    There is no union here of hearts
    That finds not here an end.—JAMES MONTGOMERY, The Little Cloud
    

39. Came but for Friendship and took away Love.—THOMAS MOORE, A Temple to Friendship
    

40. A friendship that like love is warm;
    A love like friendship steady.—THOMAS MOORE, How Shall I Woo?
    

41. Oh, call it by some better name,
    For friendship sounds too cold.—THOMAS MOORE, Oh, Call It by Some Better Name
    

42. In the life of a young man the most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

43. Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.—POPE, Essay 'on Man
    

44. A reconciled friend is a double enemy.—Proverb
    

45. A true friend does sometimes venture to be offensive.—Proverb
    

46. A true friend should be like a privy, open in necessity.—Proverb

47. A man may see his freend need, but winna see him bleed.—Proverb
    

48. A friend in need is a friend indeed.—Proverb
    

49. A friend is best found in adversity.—Proverb
    

50. A friend that you buy, will be bought from you.—Proverb
    

51. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.—Proverb
    

52. Few there are that will endure a true friend.—Proverb
    

53. Friends need no formal invitation.—Proverb
    

54. Friendship consists not in saying, What's the best news?—Proverb
    

55. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but more in visiting them
    seldom.—Proverb
    

56. Friendship is not to be bought at a fair.—Proverb
    

57. Friendship that flames, goes out in a flash.—Proverb
    

58. Friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is.—Proverb
    

59. Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to
    their misfortunes.—Proverb
    

60. By requiting one friend we invite many.—Proverb
    

61. Happy is he whose friends were born before him.—Proverb
    

62. Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.—Proverb
    

63. He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.—Proverb
    

64. Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.—Proverb
    

65. Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

66. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

67. Strange that I did not know him then,
    That friend of mine.
    I did not even show him then
    One friendly sign. . . .
    I would have rid the earth of him
    Once, in my pride.
    I never knew the worth of him
    Until he died.—E. A. ROBINSON
    

68. The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.—ARTHUR SCHNITZLER, Anatole
    

69. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.—JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
    

70. I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few;
    My pipe of briar, my open fire, a book that's not too new.—R. W. SERVICE, I Have Some Friends
    

71. My friends were poor, but honest.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

72. A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper.—SHAKESPEARE, The Comedy of Errors
    

73. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;
    Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
    Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

74. Here is a dear and true industrious friend.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

75. I count myself in nothing else so happy
    As in a soul remembering my good friends.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
    

76. And do as adversaries do in law,
    Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

77. While I think on thee, dear friend,
    All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XXX
    

78. I'm very lonely now, Mary,
    For the poor make no new friends;
    But, oh! they love the better still
    The few our Father sends.—HELEN S. SHERIDAN, Lament of the Irish Emigrant
    

79. We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up: others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
    

80. Now am I hail-fellow-well­met with all.—SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannus
    

81. Desiderata:
    • Good Health.
    • 2 to 3 hundred (pounds) a year.
    • O du lieber Gott, friends! Amen.—STEVENSON
      
      
82. Hast thou a friend, as heart may wish at will?
    Then use him so, to have his friendship still.
    Wouldst have a friend, wouldst know what friend is best?
    Have God thy friend, who passeth all the rest.—THOMAS TUSSER, Posies for a Parlour
    
    
83. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.—WOODROW WILSON