Friends Quotes - Page 28

• My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Enough, Knows

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• There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

  Boris Yeltsin

  People, Political, Temptation

  "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.

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• It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

  Anne Roiphe

  Friendship, Moving, People

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• Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

  Anne Roiphe

  Friendship, Hands, Needs

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• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Generosity, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Eye, Tears

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• I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

  Dian Fossey

  Destiny, Parent, May

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• About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

  Ayn Rand

  Simple, Construction Workers, Views

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• Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

  Victor Hugo

  Enemy, Sometimes

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• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Ignorance, Envy

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• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sex, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Joy, Mines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

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• Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Friendship

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• You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Friendship, True Friend, Enemy

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• When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boys, Lamps, Toys

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.387

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• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  Leon Uris

  Friendship, Enemy, World

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

  Mark McCormack

  Funny, Friendship, Business

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• There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Two, Friend Valentine, Can Do

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• For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

  Willow Bay

  Impact, Speak Less, Maximum

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• I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Friendship, Balls

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• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Friendship, Force

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.87

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• Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Friendship, Suffering

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1596, Moody Publishers

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