Friendship Quotes

• She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

• To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

• However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen.

• An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point.

• Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

• There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

• True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

• When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

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

• We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

• The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

• Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

• Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

• Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

• Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

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