Quotes On Friendship And Trust Biography
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Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
Anon
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads, or frost work, but the solidest things we know. A friend is the first person who come in when the whole world has gone out.
Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus 9:10
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) - Nicomachean Ethics Book IX Chapter 8, 325 B.C.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) - Nicomachean Ethics (4th c. B.C.) 8.I, tr. Thompson
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) - Quoted in Diogenes Laeritus's Lives and Opinions of eminent Philosophers (3rd C. A.D.) tr. R.D. Hicks
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) - Eudemian Ethics VII 1238a20
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) - Eudemian Ethics Book VIII, 1155.a5
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) - Northanger Abby, 1817-1819, Wild Jolt Press, 2009, p 22.
Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
Lord Avebury (John Lubbock) {1834-1913) - Pleasures of the Life, "The Blessings of Friends," MacMillan And Co, London, 1913, p. 57
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach (1936 -) Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Essays (1625) XXVII "Of Friendship"
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Essays (1625) XXVII "Of Friendship"
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Essays (1625) XXVII "Of Friendship"
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Essays (1625) XXVII "Of Friendship"
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Essays (1625) XXVII "Of Friendship"
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Essays, "Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature," (1597-1625)
Little minds need to practice despotism to relieve their nerves, just as great souls thirst for equality in friendship to exercise their hearts.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) - Pierrette (1840), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Ch. IV: Pierrette.
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
George Bancroft (1800-1891)- History of the United States, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians
Friendship is a crystal lake, sheltered from ruffling winds, wherein he who looks may see his better nature.
Christopher Bannister (?) - Quoted in The Wealth of Friendship, Wallice and Francis Rice Ed, Barse & Hopkins, 1909, p145.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (1584-1616, 1579-1625) - Faithful Friends, Act III, Scene 3, line 50, 1608
Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.
Hugh Black (1868-1953) - Quoted in The Wealth of Friendship, eds, Wright, Wakeley, Gunsaulus, Barse & Hopkins, NY, 1909, p.43
In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than either in himself possesses. Every individual relationship has contact with a universal. To reach out to the fuller life of love is a divine enchantment, because it leads to more than itself, and is the open door into the mystery of life."
Hugh Black (1868-1953) -The Fruits of Friendship, Fleming H. Revel Co, NY, 1898, p10.
No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.
Hugh Black (1868-1953) -The Fruits of Friendship, Fleming H. Revel Co, NY, 1898, p19.
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (1621-1679) - The History of Henry the Fifth, 1664
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
Robert Brault - Blog: A Robert Brault Reader, "First Thoughts for 2013," www.robertbrault.com
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own; we must look at their truth to themselves, full as much as their truth to us.
Charlotte Brontë - Letter, July 21, 1851, published in The Life of Charlotte Bronte, ch 26.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friend.
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre,
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