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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FRIENDS 1
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918, American historian)
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Alfred Adler (1870-1937, Austrian psychiatrist)
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Alfred Adler (1870-1937, Austrian psychiatrist)
Little friends may prove great friends.
Aesop (620-560 BC, Greek fabulist)
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American author)
The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.
William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou (1928-, African-American poet, writer, performer) Author's website: www.mayaangelou.com
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself -- an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes (388-311 BC, Greek dramatist)
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha (A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).)
A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
Apocrypha (A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).)
Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity.
Apocrypha (A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).)
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
St. Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
St. Thomas Aquinas
A friend is one to whom we may pour out the contents of our hearts, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Arabian Definition
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556, Italian writer)
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556, Italian writer)
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973, Anglo-American poet)
Friendship has splendor that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
Mariama Ba
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content."
Lauren Bacall (1924-, American actress)
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
Richard Bach (1936-, American author)
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...
Richard Bach (1936-, American author)
Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach (1936-, American author)
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953, British author)
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
Joseph Brodsky (1940-, Russian-born American poet, critic)
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851, British Romantic writer)
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.
Nicholson Baker (1957-, American author)
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De Balzac (1799-1850, French novelist)
There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.
Honore De Balzac (1799-1850, French novelist)
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
Margaret Culkin Banning
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959, American actress)
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827, German composer)
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953, British author)
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931, British novelist)
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931, British novelist)
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925, British author, poet)
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925, British author, poet)
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)
Now that's a real diamond: the person that will take time to be a friend to those in need and not just the people with pleasing personalities.
Maxine Biome
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell (1850-1933, British essayist, liberal politician)
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who DO love us.
Erma Bombeck (1927-, American author, humorist) Author's website: www.humorwriters.org
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck (1927-, American author, humorist) Author's website: www.humorwriters.org
And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
James Boswell (1740-1795, British writer, journalist)
A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.
Elise Boulding
A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918, American writer)
A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918, American writer)
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918, American writer)
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Kenneth Branagh (1960-, British-born American actor, director, producer, stage director)
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
Nicholas Breton (1545-1626, British author, poet)
A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away™?
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-, British-American humorist) Author's website: www.ashleighbrilliant.com
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 (American editor, columnist)
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Vera Brittain (1893-1970, British writer)
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855, British novelist)
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte (1818-1848, British novelist, poet)
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915, British poet)
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American psychologist, television and radio personality)
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
John Mason Brown (1800-1859, American militant abolitionist)
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682, British author, physician, philosopher)
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, American novelist)
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994, German poet, short stories writer, novelist)
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet)
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951, American writer, humorist)
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951, American writer, humorist)
Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
Lord Burleigh
But I have certainty enough, For I am sure of you.
Amelia Burr
The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
Amelia Burr
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