Friendship Quotes - Page 26

• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Writing, Family And Friends, Toil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1965). “The house of the seven gables”

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• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Credit, Literature, Used

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• Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Names, Volunteer, Alliances

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Travel, Fear, Strangers And Friends

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Time, Pain

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

  John Green

  People, Needs, Tails

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.44, Penguin

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• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Funny, Dog, Together

  Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”

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• He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Popularity, Casts, Packs

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.217

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Relationship, Family

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

  Roger Zelazny

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Hate, Love You, Heart

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• Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

  Truman Capote

  Best Friend, Funny Friend, Friendly

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

  Lee Iacocca

  Cute, Relationship, Death

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

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• If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

  Alice Miller

  Real Friends, Gossip, Safe

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• True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

  Alexander Pope

  True Friend, Funny Friend, Law

  Translation of the Odyssey, bk. 15, l. 83 (1725 - 1756)

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• Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Real, Heart, Men

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• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sake, Foundation, Ifs

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• A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Kind, Cherish

  "Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles".

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• What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

  George Eliot

  Cute, Faith, Eye

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.134, 谷月社

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• He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friends, Weakness

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• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Immortality, Importunate

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

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• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Finals, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.42, RosettaBooks

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• Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Relationship, Courtesy, Holmes

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

  Homer

  Two Friends, Soul, Body

  Homer (1840). “Homer”, p.55

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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Attitude, Power, Hypocrisy

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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