Friendship Quotes
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Love Quotes 2
"There are no such things as
strangers, only friends we haven't
met yet." -- Anonymous
"Odd how much it hurts when a
friend moves away - and leaves
behind only silence." -- Pam Brown
"You can make more friends in
two months by becoming
interested in other people than
you can by trying to get other
people interested in you." -- Dale
Carnegie
"You can hardly make a friend in a
year, but you can easily offend
one in an hour." -- Chinese
Proverb
"It is the friends that you can call
at 4 A.M. that matter." -- Marlene
Dietrich
"In times of prosperity friends will
be plenty; in time of adversity not
one in twenty." -- English Proverb
"My best friend is the one that
brings out the best in me." --
Henry Ford
"If I had to choose between
betraying my country and
betraying my friend, I hope I
should have the guts to betray
my country." -- E. M. Forster
"Each friend represents a world in
us, a world possibly not born until
they arrive, and it is only by this
meeting that a new world is born."
-- Anais Nin
"God save me from my friends - I
can protect myself from my
enemies." -- Proverb
"Life withougt a friend is death
without a witness." -- Spanish
Proverb
"We are all travelers in the
wilderness of this world, and the
best we can find in our travels is
an honest friend" -- Robert Lewis
Stevenson
"The most I can do for my friend
is simply to be his friend." --
Henry David Thoreau
"Friends are God's way of
apologizing to us for our families."
-- Unknown
"No person is your friend who
demands your silence, or denies
your right to grow."-- Alice Walker
"Nine-tenths of the people were
created so you would want to be
with the other tenth." -- Horace
Walpole
"A friend is one who knows all
about you and likes you anyway."
-- Christi Mary Warner
"A friend can tell you things you
don't want to tell yourself." --
Frances Ward Weller
"Truly loving another means
letting go of all expectations. It
means full acceptance, even
celebration of another's
personhood."
-Karen Casey
"If you judge people, you have no
time to love them."
-Mother Theresa
"If you would be loved, love and
be lovable."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Love begins with a smile, grows
with a kiss, and ends with a
teardrop." -- Anonymous
"We always believe our first love is
our last, and our last love our
first." -- Anonymous
"We come to love not by finding a
perfect person, but by learning to
see an imperfect person
perfectly." -- Anonymous
"The way to love anything is to
realize that it might be lost." -- G.
K. Chesterton
"Love is shown in your deeds, not
in your words." -- Fr. Jerome
Cummings
"Where there is love there is life."
-- Gandhi
"We look forward to the time
when the power to love of will
replace the love of power. Then
will our world know the blessings
of peace." -- William Gladstone
"The supreme happiness in life is
the conviction that we are loved."
-- Victor Hugo
"To love someone deeply gives
you strength. Being loved by
someone deeply gives you
courage." -- Lao Tzu
"Absence diminishes small loves
and increases great ones, as the
wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire." -- François
de La Rouchefoucauld
"Love one another and you will be
happy. It's as simple and as
difficult as that." -- Michael Leunig
"The heart has reasons that
reason cannot know." -- Pascal
"To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best."
-- William M. Thackeray
"We cannot really love anybody
with whom we never laugh." --
Agnes Repplier
"And when the future hinges on
the next words that are said,
don't let logic interfere, believe
your heart instead." -- Philip
Robison
" 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In
Memoriam, 1850
"Love without reason lasts the
longest." -- Unknown
"Better never to have met you in
my dream than to wake and reach
for hands that are not there." --
Otomo No Yakamochi
This was love at first sight, love
everlasting: a feeling unknown,
unhoped for, unexpected--in so
far as it could be a matter of
conscious awareness; it took
entire possession of him, and he
understood, with joyous
amazement, that this was for life.
* Thomas Mann
We are not the same persons this
year as last; nor are those we
love. It is a happy chance if we,
changing, continue to love a
changed person.
* W. Somerset Maugham
Romantic love is an illusion. Most
of us discover this truth at the
end of a love affair or else when
the sweet emotions of love lead
us into marriage and then turn
down their flames.
* Thomas Moore
A man reserves his true and
deepest love not for the species
of woman in whose company he
finds himself electrified and
enkindled, but for that one in
whose company he may feel
tenderly drowsy.
* George Jean Nathan
There is always some madness in
love. But there is also always
some reason in madness.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and
of an annoying and repetitive
pattern, like bad wallpaper.
* P. J. O'Rourke
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if
you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you
acknowledge his power.
* Ovid
We conceal it from ourselves in
vain--we must always love
something. In those matters
seemingly removed from love, the
feeling is secretly to be found, and
man cannot possibly live for a
moment without it.
* Blaise Pascal
Love, free as air at sight of human
ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a
moment flies.
* Alexander Pope
Love makes the time pass. Time
makes love pass.
* French Proverb
Love is something far more than
desire for sexual intercourse; it is
the principal means of escape
from the loneliness which afflicts
most men and women throughout
the greater part of their lives.
* Bertrand Russell
Love is a spirit of all compact of
fire.
* William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but
with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid
painted blind.
* William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given
unsought, is better.
* William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did
run smooth.
* William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not
show their love.
* William Shakespeare
We cease loving ourselves if no
one loves us.
* Madame De Staël
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
* Lord Tennyson
There is no remedy for love but to
love more.
* Henry David Thoreau
If so many men, so many minds,
certainly so many hearts, so many
kinds of love.
* Leo Tolstoy
Love has features which pierce all
hearts, he wears a bandage which
conceals the faults of those
beloved. He has wings, he comes
quickly and flies away the same.
* Voltaire
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
* Marianne Williamson
Friends are born, not made.
* Henry Adams
Forsake not an old friend, for a
new one does not compare with
him.
* Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10
My best friend is the man who in
wishing me well wishes it for my
sake.
* Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling
in two bodies.
* Aristotle
This communicating of a man's
self to his friend works two
contrary effects; for it redoubleth
joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
* Francis Bacon
Friendship is a strong and habitual
inclination in two persons to
promote the good and happiness
of one another.
* Eustace Budgell
Don't believe your friends when
they ask you to be honest with
them. All they really want is to be
maintained in the good opinion
they have of themselves.
* Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of
friendship? A taste for truth at
any cost is a passion which spares
nothing.
* Albert Camus
Friendship often ends in love; but
love in friendship--never.
* Charles Caleb Colton
What a wretched lot of old
shrivelled creatures we shall be
by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier
we get in the eyes of others, the
lovelier we shall be to each other;
that has always been my firm faith
about friendship.
* George Eliot
A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old
friends that you can afford to be
stupid with them.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to
be one.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friendship is shown in times
of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
* Euripedes
It is in the thirties that we want
friends. In the forties we know
they won't save us any more than
love did.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
No man can be happy without a
friend, nor be sure of his friend till
he is unhappy.
* Thomas Fuller
Your friend is the man who knows
all about you, and still likes you.
* Elbert Hubbard
My father always used to say that
when you die, if you've got five
real friends, you've had a great life.
* Lee Iacocca
A true friend is the greatest of all
blessings, and that which we take
the least care of all to acquire.
* François Duc de La
Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it
is less so than true friendship.
* François Duc de La
Rochefoucauld
The most deadly fruit is borne by
the hatred which one grafts on an
extinguished friendship.
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It's no good trying to keep up old
friendships. It's painful for both
sides. The fact is, one grows out
of people, and the only thing is to
face it.
* W. Somerset Maugham
We know our friends by their
defects rather than by their merits.
* W. Somerset Maugham
If a man should importune me to
give a reason why I loved him, I
find it could no otherwise be
expressed, than by making
answer: because it was he,
because it was I.
* Michel de Montaigne
Love demands infinitely less than
friendship.
* George Jean Nathan
Women can form a friendship with
a man very well; but to preserve
it--to that end a slight physical
antipathy must probably help.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold a true friend with both your
hands.
* Nigerian Proverb
To me, fair friend, you never can
be old
For as you were when first your
eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
* William Shakespeare
Friendship is constant in all other
things
Save in the office and affairs of
love.
* William Shakespeare
The proper office of a friend is to
side with you when you are in the
wrong. Nearly anybody will side
with you when you are in the right.
* Mark Twain
Friendship is the marriage of the
soul, and this marriage is liable to
divorce.
* Voltaire
Between men and women there is
no friendship possible. There is
passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
* Oscar Wilde
This was love at first sight, love
everlasting: a feeling unknown,
unhoped for, unexpected--in so
far as it could be a matter of
conscious awareness; it took
entire possession of him, and he
understood, with joyous
amazement, that this was for life.
* Thomas Mann
We are not the same persons this
year as last; nor are those we
love. It is a happy chance if we,
changing, continue to love a
changed person.
* W. Somerset Maugham
Romantic love is an illusion. Most
of us discover this truth at the
end of a love affair or else when
the sweet emotions of love lead
us into marriage and then turn
down their flames.
* Thomas Moore
A man reserves his true and
deepest love not for the species
of woman in whose company he
finds himself electrified and
enkindled, but for that one in
whose company he may feel
tenderly drowsy.
* George Jean Nathan
There is always some madness in
love. But there is also always
some reason in madness.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and
of an annoying and repetitive
pattern, like bad wallpaper.
* P. J. O'Rourke
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if
you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you
acknowledge his power.
* Ovid
We conceal it from ourselves in
vain--we must always love
something. In those matters
seemingly removed from love, the
feeling is secretly to be found, and
man cannot possibly live for a
moment without it.
* Blaise Pascal
Love, free as air at sight of human
ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a
moment flies.
* Alexander Pope
Love makes the time pass. Time
makes love pass.
* French Proverb
Love is something far more than
desire for sexual intercourse; it is
the principal means of escape
from the loneliness which afflicts
most men and women throughout
the greater part of their lives.
* Bertrand Russell
Love is a spirit of all compact of
fire.
* William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but
with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid
painted blind.
* William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given
unsought, is better.
* William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did
run smooth.
* William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not
show their love.
* William Shakespeare
We cease loving ourselves if no
one loves us.
* Madame De Staël
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
* Lord Tennyson
There is no remedy for love but to
love more.
* Henry David Thoreau
If so many men, so many minds,
certainly so many hearts, so many
kinds of love.
* Leo Tolstoy
Love has features which pierce all
hearts, he wears a bandage which
conceals the faults of those
beloved. He has wings, he comes
quickly and flies away the same.
* Voltaire
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
* Marianne Williamson
"To know someone here or there
with whom you can feel there is
understanding in spite of
distances or thoughts expressed
~ That can make life a garden."
-Goethe
"Silence is the true friend that
never betrays."
-Confucious
"Love is blind, but friendship
closes its eyes."
-unknown
"But friendship is precious, not
only in the shade, but in the
sunshine of life; and thanks to a
benevolent arrangement of things,
the greater part of life is
sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Don't walk in front of me, I may
not follow ~ Don't walk behind
me, I may not lead ~ Just walk
beside me and be my friend."
-unknown
"An ounce of blood is worth more
than a pound of friendship."
-Spanish Proverb
"Friends are born, not made."
-Henry Adams
"A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My father always used to say that
when you die, if you've got five
real friends, then you've had a
great life."
-Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend with both your
hands."
-Nigerian Proverb
"Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another
human being. Each of us owes
deepest thanks to those who
have rekindled this light."
-Albert Schweitzer
"There comes that mysterious
meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and
what we can be, igniting the
circuits of our highest potential."
-Rusty Berkus
"Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
"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
"Remember friends as you pass
by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
-Gravestone from the 1800s
"I do not want a friend
Who smiles when I smile
Who weeps when I weep
For my shadow in the pool
Can do better than that."
-Confucious
"A friend is someone who knows
the song in your heart and can
sing it back to you when you have
forgotten the words."
-unknown
"A friend is a gift you give
yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"A mighty pain to love it is,
and 'tis a pain that pain to
miss; but of all the pains, the
greatest pain is to love, but
love in vain."
-Abraham Crowley
"So much of what we know of
love we learn at home."
-unknown
"You don't marry someone
you can live with - you marry
the person who you cannot
live without."
-unknown
"Love is blind, but friendship
closes its eyes."
-unknown
"Life has taught us that love
does not consist in gazing at
each other but in looking
outward together in the same
direction."
-Saint-Exupery
"A kiss is a lovely trick
designed by nature to stop
speech when words become
superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"Love built on beauty, soon as
beauty, dies."
-John Donne
"He that falls in love with
himself will have no rivals."
-Benjamin Franklin
"I never knew how to worship
until I knew how to love."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Woe to the man whose heart
has not learned while young to
hope, to love - and to put its
trust in life."
-Joseph Conrad
"True love is like ghosts, which
everybody talks about and few
have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Who ever loved that loved
not at first sight?"
-Christopher Marlowe
"Tell me whom you love and I
will tell you who you are."
-Houssaye
"We perceive when love begins
and when it declines by our
embarrassment when alone
together."
-La Bruyere
"Better to have loved and lost,
than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"To love another person is to
see the face of God."
-Les Miserables
"Love is but the discovery of
ourselves in others, and the
delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
"When we are in love we often
doubt that which we most
believe."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Sympathy constitutes
friendship; but in love there is
a sort of antipathy, or
opposing passion. Each strives
to be the other, and both
together make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"The richest love is that which
submits to the arbitration of
time."
-Lawrence Durrell
"There is no disguise which can
hide love for long where it
exists, or simulate it where it
does not."
-La Rochefoucauld
"A very small degree of hope is
sufficient to cause the birth of
love."
-Stendhal
"There is no remedy for love
but to love more."
-Thoreau
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
-Diogenes
"Death is a challenge. It tells
us not to waste time... It tells
us to tell each other right now
that we love each other."
-Leo F. Buscaglia
"Love cures people - both the
ones who give it and the ones
who receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger
"Spread love everywhere you
go: first of all in your own
house. Give love to your
children, to your wife or
husband, to a next door
neighbor... Let no one ever
come to you without leaving
better and happier. Be the
living expression of God's
kindness; kindness in your
face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile,
kindness in your warm
greeting."
-Mother Theresa
"To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray
"Don't forget to love yourself."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"If you love someone, let them go.
If they return to you, it was
meant to be. If they don't, their
love was never yours to begin
with..."
-Unknown
"Love is hard work; and hard work
sometimes hurts!"
-Unknown
"True love never dies for it is lust
that fades away. Love bonds for a
lifetime but lust just pushes away."
-Alicia Barnhart
"You call it madness, but I call it
love."
-Don Byas
"Who says love never lives? Maybe
we've never lived."
-Unknown
"He who loves 50 people has 50
woes; he who loves no one has
no woes."
-Buddha
"Some love lasts a lifetime. True
love lasts forever."
-Unknown
"Love is not blind - It sees more
and not less, but because it sees
more it is willing to see less."
-Will Moss
"If love is great, and there are no
greater things, then what I feel for
you must be the greatest."
-Unknown
"The eskimos have 52 words for
snow because it is so special to
them; there ought to be as many
for love!"
-Margaret Atwood
"Love is like playing the piano.
First you must learn to play by the
rules, then you must forget the
rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown
"Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again."
-Unknown
"Love is not love that alters when
it alteration finds."
-Shakespeare
"If I could reach up and hold a
star for every time you've made
me smile, the entire evening sky
would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown
"We all want to fall in love. Why?
Because that experience makes us
feel completely alive. Where every
sense is heightened, every
emotion is magnified, our
everyday reality is shattered and
we are flying into the heavens. It
may only last a moment, an hour,
an afternoon. But that doesn't
diminish its value. Because we are
left with memories that we
treasure for the rest of our lives."
-Unknown
"Relationships--of all kinds--are
like sand held in your hand. Held
loosely, with an open hand, the
sand remains where it is. The
minute you close your hand and
squeeze tightly to hold on, the
sand trickles through your fingers.
You may hold onto some of it, but
most will be spilled. A relationship
is like that. Held loosely, with
respect and freedom for the other
person, it is likely to remain intact.
But hold too tightly, too
possessively, and the relationship
slips away and is lost."
-Kaleel Jamison
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