Friendship Quotes - Page 35

• A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

  Arthur Brisbane

  True Friend, Real Friends, Good Friend

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• Friendship is stronger than kindred.

  Publilius Syrus

  Stronger, Kindred

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• Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

  Frederic Farrar

  Errors, Faithful, May

  Frederic William Farrar (1868). “The Fall of Man, and Other Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge, Etc”, p.366

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  True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

  Bob Marley

  Stars, True Friend, Dark

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• A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Break, Lacking, Pretext

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1953). “Letters”

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• Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

  Lucan

  Loyal, Unfortunate, Objects

  Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”

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• Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

  C. S. Lewis

  Unique, Two, Taste

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

  Christopher Morley

  Fashion, Growing Up, Grows

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• When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Destiny, Cry, Friends

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• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, History, Political

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Once you pledge, don't hedge.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Pledge

  Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”

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• Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

  John Vanbrugh

  Nice, Roots, Growth

  Sir John Vanbrugh (1970). “The relapse”

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• Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

  Richard Steele

  Dresses, Matter, Should

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.49

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• I guess a man's best friend is his mother.

  Vina Delmar

  Friends, Mother, Men

  "Fictional character: Daniel Leeson". "The Awful Truth", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

  George Chapman

  Funny, Dog, Humor

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.231

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• Friends are thieves of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Thieves

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.349

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• Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

  John Gay

  Dog, Pride, Men

  John Gay, “An Elegy On A Lap-Dog”

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• The only rose without thorns is friendship.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Real, Rose, Thorns

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• Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

  Whitney Otto

  Love, Two, Able

  Whitney Otto (2015). “How to Make an American Quilt”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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• We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Good Friend, Desire, Needs

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• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

  Theodore White

  Courage, Bullying, Thinking Of You

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• Every child deserves a chance at a life
  filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

  Marlo Thomas

  Family, Laughter, Children

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• “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thank You, Giving, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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