#friendship

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#desert #desert island #divides #evils #find

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#adversity #always #better #cherish #dark

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#chance #friends #having #lose #make

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. ↗

— Jane Harrison

#friendship #glorious #learning #least #life

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#bury #carcass #friends #friendship #gone

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ↗

— William Hazlitt

#common #even #friendship #hands #happiness

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#friendship #goodness #greatest #heart #lasting

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cold #distasteful #friendships #like #meats

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #force #friendship #itself #left

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage