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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FRIENDS 3
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet, critic)
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be too.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all -- friends?
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus (c.341-270 BC, Greek philosopher)
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus (c.341-270 BC, Greek philosopher)
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus (c.341-270 BC, Greek philosopher)
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus (c.341-270 BC, Greek philosopher)
Friends show their love in times of trouble...
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
I loathe a friend... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.
Jean-Henri Fabre
I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Douglas Fairbanks (1909-2000, American film actor, writer, producer)
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
William Feather (1888-19, American writer, businessman)
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois de Salignac Fenelon (1651-1715, French writer)
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Susan Ferrier
If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.
Oscar W. Firkins
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
Elizabeth Fishel
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
Elizabeth Fishel
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B.C. Forbes
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be.... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
B.C. Forbes
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford (1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company)
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
There are three faithful friends; an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
Miles Franklin (1879-1954, Australian author)
Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.
Robert E. Frederick
Live on in the soul always.
Spencer M. Free
Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.
Daniel Frohman
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Ibn Gabirol
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
The presidency is temporary but the family is permanent.
Yvonne De Gaulle
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay (1688-1732, British playwright, poet)
Who friendship with a knave hath made, is judged a partner in the trade.
John Gay (1688-1732, British playwright, poet)
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson Gentry
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Let your best be for your friend...
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Your friend is your needs answered.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
Althea Gibson (1927-, American tennis player)
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasgow
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasow
Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to.
Arnold H. Glasow
Everybody needs one essential friend.
Dr. William Glasser
Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.
Edgar Godospeed
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there.... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
In comradeship is danger countered best.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
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