Friendship Quotes - Page 22

• To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

  Lilian Whiting

  Rich, Poor

  Lilian Whiting (1920). “The World Beautiful: 1st-3d Ser”

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• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Kindness, Love You

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

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• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  Saint Augustine

  Hands, Two Friends, Judging

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• In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

  Solon

  Life, Giving, Advice

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• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• My only politics have been friendship.

  Jean Cocteau

  Has Beens

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• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  League, Vices, World

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.201

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• Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Real, Intelligent, Secret

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.267, OUP Oxford

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Business, Men

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• If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

  P. C. Cast

  Good Friend, Cute Best Friend, Laughing

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.194, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  Mencius

  Best Friend, True Friend, Educational

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• It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Believe, Real Friends, Important

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Teacher, Cute Best Friend, Vocabulary

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• One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

  Susan Orlean

  Phones, My Best Friend, Watches

  "Togetherness" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2011.

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• The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

  Galina Vishnevskaya

  Spiritual, Light, Soul

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• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

  Pietro Aretino

  True Friend, Real Friends, Treasure

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

  Arthur Bloch

  Funny, Humor, Enemy

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, Penguin

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• It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

  Arnold Bennett

  God, Judging, Judgement

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “Mental Efficiency: Top of Bennett”, p.13, 谷月社

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• I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

  Confucius

  Smile, Shadow, Want

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• In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Suffering, May, Faults

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• Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.

  Callimachus

  Dust, Long, Tears

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• Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

  Sydney Smith

  Love, Happiness, Real Friends

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.178

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• One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.

  George Carlin

  True Friend, Funny Best Friend, Funny Friend

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• A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

  Samuel Butler

  Memories, Two, Doe

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.377, The Floating Press

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• May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Best Friend, God

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