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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FRIENDS 2
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890, Explorer, born in Torquay)
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife, the way to stay close is to do things together and share.
Barbara Bush (1925-, American First Lady, wife of George H. Bush)
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
Barbara Bush (1925-, American First Lady, wife of George H. Bush)
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes (1879-1972, American judge, secretary of state)
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
I have always laid it down as a maxim, and found it justified by experience, that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -- but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
I have always laid it down as a maxim, and found it justified by experience, that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -- but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
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 (1788-1824, British poet)
Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.
Violeta Barrios De Chamorro
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952, British author)
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning (1770-1827, British statesman)
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 (1942-, American author)
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family -- but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Willa Cather (1876-1947, American author)
Power without the people's confidence is nothing.
Catherine The Great
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
Susannah Centlivre
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright)
My friends, there are no friends.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971, French couturier)
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman (1557-1634, British dramatist, translator, poet)
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955, French Christian mystic, author)
I can trust my friends.... These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher (1946-, American singer, actress)
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Chilo (560 BC, Greek sage)
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Agatha Christie (1891-1976, British mystery writer)
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921, Mother of British prime Minster, Winston Churchill)
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Friends are proved by adversity.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
There are limits to the indulgence which friendship allows.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.
Esther M. Clark (1773-1825, American poet)
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher)
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher)
And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
John Churton Collins
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
Sheryl Condie
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
To know someone, observe what he cares about and which of his own personal aspects he tries to develop and promote.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who "come out" together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974, British critic)
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974, British critic)
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667, British poet)
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
William Cowper (1731-1800, British poet)
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Mulock Craik
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane (American actor)
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Frank Crane (American actor)
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis Crawford
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
A.J. Cronin
Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
Grace Noll Crowell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.
Simon Dach (1605-1659, German lyric poet)
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama (1935-, Tibetan religious leader)
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882, British naturalist)
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille (1738-1813, French poet)
In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.
Democritus (c.460-370 BC, Greek philosopher)
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Dhammapada (BC 300-, Buddhist collection of moral aphorism)
Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses.
Comtesse Diane
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)
My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June -- and in it are my friends -- every one of them.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)
The hearts that never lean must fall.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)
It's the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992, German-born American film actor)
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact.
Henry L. Doherty (1870-1939, American utilities executive/engineer)
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre (the Younger) Dumas (1824-1895, French writer)
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Alexander Eastman
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
George Ebers
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849, British writer)
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
My father was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
Linda Ellerbee
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
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