Quotes about friend
friendship best-friend misfortunes
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
friends men self
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
friendship soul understanding
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.
friendship heart sincerity
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
friendship vanity littles
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
friendship failing sincerity
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
friendship gratitude kindness
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
friendship opposites grace
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
friendship self judging
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
friendship perfect taste
We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.
friendship self traffic
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
friends religious people
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
friends self judging
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
friends regret grief
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
friends men self
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
friends thinking self
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. Francis Quarles
friendship family im-sorry
Friends are God's apology for relations.
friendship dog betrayed
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. Horace Walpole
friends wise kings
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. Horace
friends men intimate
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]
friendship race soul
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. Homer
friendship two-friends soul
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
friendship hate passion
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.
friendship good-friend conversation
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends. Gloria Steinem
friendship real-friends night
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Giotto di Bondone
friendship country political
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward. Harry S Truman
friendship eye men
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes Immanuel Kant
friendly barmen locals
You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen. J. K. Rowling
friendship want weasley
He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.
friends heart roots
Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.
friendship letting-go book
Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!
friendship common belief
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins. H. L. Mencken
friendship dog home
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. Guillermo Cabrera Infante