Friends Quotes - Page 11

• Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

  James Howell

  Book, Choices

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”, p.19

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• The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

  Phillips Brooks

  Two, Sacred, Firsts

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Regret, Grief, Loss

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• A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

  Plutarch

  Needs, Should, Found

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• Friends given by God in mercy and in love;
  My counsellors, my comforters, and guides;
  My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy;
  Companions of my young desires; in doubt
  My oracles; my wings in high pursuit.
  Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget
  Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours;
  Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul,
  Our faces beaming with unearthly love;--
  Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope
  Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

  Robert Pollok

  Grief, Heart, Wings

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book V.”

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• If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

  William Hazlitt

  Long, Forget, Despise

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

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• Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

  Aristotle

  Good Friend, Fortune, Bad Fortune

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Intellectual, Age, Treasure

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.304

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• He who reckons ten friends has not one.

  Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

  Ten

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• Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

  Margaret Fuller

  Stars, Heart, Character

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• The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

  Owen Feltham

  Wise, Thinking, Errors

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.23

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• Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fruit, Prosperity, Shows

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.154

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• The wretched have no friends.

  John Dryden

  No Friends, Wretched

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

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• Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
  And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Blessing, Dwelling, Crowns

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.22

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• Men make the best friends.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men

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• If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Together Again, Tears, Monsters

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.593, e-artnow

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• The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

  Jay McInerney

  Friendship, Family, Inspiring

  Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage

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• A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

  Quintus Ennius

  Loyalty, True Friend, Heart

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• There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

  Abraham Cowley

  Kings, Earth, Fewer

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.232

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• All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends,
  And many friendships in the days of Time
  Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

  Robert Pollok

  Heaven, Faithful, Growing

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.186

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• So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

  Plutarch

  Experts, Affection, Worthy

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Should, Multitudes, Boast

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• It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Evil, Choices, Inquiring

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• If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

  Steve Berry

  Friendship, Music, Bridges

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1878, Ballantine Books

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• Friendship is Love without his wings!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Real Friends

  'L'Amitiè est l'amour sans ailes'

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