Friends Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• You should be
  treating yourself like
  you are your
  own best friend.

  K.Michelle

  Like You, Should

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
  [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici;
  Expertus metuit.]

  Horace

  Men, Intimate, Pleasant

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• It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

  George Eliot

  Utterance, My Friends

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6477, Delphi Classics

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• In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.746, Stanford University Press

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• In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Reflection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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• A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Enemy

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• We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Feelings, Should

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• A friend in need needs a friend, indeed.

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Needs, Friend In Need

  Karen Scalf Linamen (2002). “Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt”

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• I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

  Barbara Park

  Believe, Problem, Pretending

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• the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  People, Would Be, Needs

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.391, Wildside Press LLC

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• Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Neglected, Comforter

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.407

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• The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Faults, Becoming

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• Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

  Amy Dickinson

  Reflection, Doors, Affection

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• Friends have a way of speaking without words.

  Alice Dalgliesh

  Way

  Alice Dalgliesh (2012). “The Courage of Sarah Noble”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.

  Anne Beatts

  Winning, Night, Men

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• Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Mean, People, Ruth

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• In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, New Relationship, Glasses

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• There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Friendship, Demand, Honest

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean, Ideas, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.232, Harvard University Press

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• We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Comedian, Appropriate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

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• Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Business

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