Friends Quotes - Page 23

• Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

  Jeffrey Klein

  Technology, Doors, Able

  "As the World Turns" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1998.

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• I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Pride, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Friendship, Numbers, Choices

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• Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

  Stephen Fry

  Friendship, Lovely

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• He makes no friend who never made a foe.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friendship, Military, No Friends

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 1080

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• Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Thinking, Connections

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.102

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• Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

  Raymond Burr

  Friendship, People, Temptation

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• Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

  George Madison Adams

  Friendship, Giving, Inspire

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• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

  Mencius

  Friendship, Brother, True Friend

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• I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of their lives with each other. See men once we become friends with another man we may never say another word to him, unless there's valuable information that needs to be exchanged. Things like "Hey Jim, your shirt's on fire."

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Friendship, Sports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

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• A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Friendship, Men, Littles

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• Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

  Liv Ullmann

  Friendship, Block, Real

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• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  Trish Stratus

  Taken, Wrestling, Good Friend

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• Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Girl, Real

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• It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Nice, Hero

  "PopSugarUK Meets Remember Me Cast Part One: Robert Pattinson on Fighting, Father Figures and Friends". PopSugarUK interview, www.popsugar.co.uk. March 29, 2010.

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• Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Hero, Thinking

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• My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Dad, Thinking

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• True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Opposites, Grace

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• Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.267, Princeton University Press

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• Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

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• And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Faithful, Earth

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