Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bonds That Tie - Page 43

Celebrate the bonds of friendship with our handpicked quotes. Cherish and appreciate your friends through timeless words. Page 43 provides more friendship quotes.

Image of William O. Douglas
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
- William O. Douglas
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat your friend as a spectacle.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Drake
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.
- Drake
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Image of George Eliot
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.
- George Eliot
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Image of John Donne
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
- John Donne
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Image of Nora Ephron
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
- Nora Ephron
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Image of Dwight D. Eisenhower
The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Image of Anthony D. Williams
Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.
- Anthony D. Williams
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Anthony D. Williams
Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.
- Anthony D. Williams
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Image of William Feather
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
- William Feather
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of B. C. Forbes
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
- B. C. Forbes
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship buys friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Euripides
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Bob Dylan
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Bob Dylan
If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Peter Gabriel
I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
- Peter Gabriel
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Image of Baltasar Gracian
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Image of Baltasar Gracian
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Image of John Gay
Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.
- John Gay
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Image of Baltasar Gracian
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Stephen Fry
Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.
- Stephen Fry
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Aristotle
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
- Aristotle
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Anatole France
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
- Anatole France
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In comradeship is danger countered best.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Khalil Gibran
Let your best be for your friend.
- Khalil Gibran
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Make use of your friends by being of use to them.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Aristotle
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
- Aristotle
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Image of Khalil Gibran
In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.
- Khalil Gibran
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Image of Robert Frost
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
- Robert Frost
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Image of Robert Frost
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
- Robert Frost
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