“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
Domestic Life
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
Domestic Life
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
The Four Loves (1960)
Context: Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variant: A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud…
" On The Conduct of Life" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/ConductLife.htm (1822), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
“You are beautiful and you are alone.”
Afraid
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Attributed
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
Maxim 872
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“The best of it all is, God is with us.”
A statement among his final words, said to have been repeated two or three times, as quoted in The Living Wesley (1891) by James Harrison Rigg
Variants: The best of it is, God is with us.
Best of all, God is with us.
General sources
Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284
“A Friend to all, is a Friend to none.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“If you believe in yourself, anything is possible.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”
“Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.”
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
Widely attributed, but likely apocryphal. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/23/friend/ Researchers have searched for this quote unsuccessfully in Camus' extant works.
Disputed