Friendship Quotes - Page 16

• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Positive, Kings

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• Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Friends, World, Ifs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• 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

  Gone, Substance, Inspiring Friends

  William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

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• The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Laughter, Heart, Men

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• When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Looks, Profile

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Music, Moving

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• How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

  Shel Silverstein

  Love, Inspiring, Real Friends

  Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”

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• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

  Homer

  Family, Sympathy, Brother

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Mean, Good Man

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.296, BookCaps Study Guides

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Relationship, Family

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, House, Path

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• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  E. M. Forster

  Country, Cheating, Betrayal

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

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• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Encouragement

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• When you think you're alone, when you think there's no one in this world who'll stand up for you, look around and make sure you're right. Friends can appear in the most unlikely people, and are often right in front of you.

  Richard Thornton

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Happiness, Thank You

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Death, Humor

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• A friend in power is a friend lost.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Best Friend, Family

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

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• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Best Friend, Wise, Oil

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

  Joseph Addison

  Friends, Wonder

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.59

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• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Happiness, Happy, Men

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• Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Real Friends, My Best Friend, Making Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

  Thomas Fuller

  Grief, Real Friends, Grieving

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• There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Relationship, Family

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