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Samuel Butler Quotes about Friendship
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler

The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

 

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard PHOTO

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher PHOTO

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

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 that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

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

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.
- Albert Camus


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