Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May you find great value in these quotes by Samuel Butler.
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
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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.
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
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Thank you for visiting: Wise Samuel Butler Quotes.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.