Facebook share   Tweet This   Email this

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
by Eustace Budgell

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

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

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

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.

Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

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

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

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

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

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

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

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

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

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

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

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

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

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

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

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Thank you for visiting: Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons by Eustace Budgell.

Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie