Devotions on Friendship

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Quotations on Friendship

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
*** Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- G. Randolf
*** To the world you might be one person; but to one person you might be the world.
- Anonymous
*** Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.
- Erwin T. Randall
*** In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
*** Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor
*** Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
- Seneca
*** There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
- Francis Bacon
*** Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones
*** A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller
*** Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- Madame de Tencin
*** Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
*** We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
- P. D. James
*** Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- Oscar Wilde
*** Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle
*** What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
*** Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- Aristotle
*** Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle
*** A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
*** What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
*** The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
*** Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
- William Lamb Melbourne
*** The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
*** Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates
*** I got a lotta best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know! - Archie Bunker
- Carroll O'Connor
*** A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
*** So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
*** Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
- Robert Louis Stevenson
*** We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
*** Friends show their love in times of trouble.
- Euripides
*** I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
- Euripides
*** I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
*** In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
- Euripides
*** Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Euripides
*** One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
*** Prosperity is full of friends.
- Euripides
*** A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- James Boswell
*** Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
- C. S. Lewis
*** Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
- C. S. Lewis
*** Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis
*** A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
*** The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
*** If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
*** 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
*** Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
- Albert Camus
*** Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- Thomas Aquinas
*** Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- Thomas Aquinas
*** I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
*** Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.
- Christina of Sweden
*** I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends�they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
- Warren G. Harding
*** I want to be your friend, for ever and ever without break of decay. When the hills are all flat and the rivers are all dry, When it lightens and thunders in winter, when it rains and snows in summer, when Heaven and Earth mingle - not till then will I part from you.
- Arthur Waley
*** Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
*** I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
- Plutarch
*** Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
- Publilius Syrus
*** Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
- Pythagoras
*** A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
- George Ade
*** A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
- Arthur Brisbane
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