Friendship Quotes - Page 19

• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

  George Washington

  Best Friend, Intimate Relationships, Revolutionary War

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94

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• Surround yourself with love, not friends.

  Lil Wayne

  Love, Inspiration, Rapper

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Oct 14, 2011

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• Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Family, Sibling, Home

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• Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

  Jean Paul

  Sad, Departed, World

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Thankful, True Friend

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• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Enemy, Few Friends

  "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  True Friend, Two, Three

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

  Sarah Dessen

  Optimistic, My Best Friend, Ugly

  "Someone Like You". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1998.

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Real Friends, Men, Thinking

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

  Peter Ustinov

  Cute Relationship, Sweet, Believe

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 5

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• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cute, Thankful, True Friend

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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• Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

  William Shakespeare

  Real Friends, Adoption, Soul

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Best Friend, Clever, Real Friends

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• Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Birthday, Thank You

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• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

  David Hume

  Spring, Philosophical, Real Friends

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• He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "The Works of Oscar Wilde".

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• The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Sympathy, Community, Individuality

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Real, Scandal, Who Your Friends Are

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

  Plutarch

  Heart, Men, Pleasant

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

  Alexander Pope

  Resentment, Cold, One Love

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.191, Lulu.com

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

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Humor, Needs

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• To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

  Sarah Ellis

  True Friend, Feelings, Complacency

  "Pictures of Private Life, Vol. 2". Book by Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1835.

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• You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

  David Shore

  Reason, Pleasure, Evidence

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