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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FRIENDS 7
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
Erwin T. Randall
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Readers Digest (American Magazine)
My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
Gabrielle Reece
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973, American aviator, World War I ace)
Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.
Dorothy Riera
No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
St. Alfred of Rievaulx
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
St. Alfred of Rievaulx
Can we talk?
Joan Rivers (1933-, American comedian, talk show host, actress)
Women rely on friends.... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
Cokie Roberts
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Donna Roberts
Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933, American poet, sister of Theodore Roosevelt)
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.
Marilynne Robinson
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
Ned Rorem
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William E. Rothschild
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Joseph Roux (1834-1905, French priest, writer)
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux (1834-1905, French priest, writer)
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
Jill Ruckelshaus
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857, Russian author)
Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.
Author Unknown
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes (1902-1982, American philosophical writer)
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.
Mark Rutherford
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French aviator, writer)
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French aviator, writer)
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust (BC 86-34, Roman historian)
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Good friends are good for your health.
Irwin Sarason
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
Hasidic Saying
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
Jewish Saying
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
You can't eat your friends and have them too.
Budd Schulberg
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, British novelist, poet)
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, British novelist, poet)
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, British novelist, poet)
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
John Selden (1584-1654, British jurist, statesman)
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Great friendship is never without anxiety.
Marquise De SeVigne
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, but Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
I have discovered the ultimate goal in life is to be your own best friend -- and only after you have befriended yourself, can you become a friend to others.
Shantidasa
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851, British novelist)
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
Alexander Smith (1830-1867, Scottish poet, author)
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.
Lady Henry Somerset
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey (1774-1843, British author)
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Friendship requires great communication.
St. Francis De Sales (1567-1622, Roman Catholic bishop, writer)
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
St. Francis De Sales (1567-1622, Roman Catholic bishop, writer)
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome (c.342-420, Croatian Christian ascetic, scholar)
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome (c.342-420, Croatian Christian ascetic, scholar)
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome (c.342-420, Croatian Christian ascetic, scholar)
No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.
Arthur H. Stainback
Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
Christina Stead
In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.
Dr. Wilhelm Stekhel
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
Anne Stevenson
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate -- a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes -- he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
The particular human chain we're a part of is central to our individual identity.
Elizabeth Stone
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey (1933-, British novelist, playwright)
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896, American novelist, antislavery campaigner)
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
August J. Strindberg (1849-1912, Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet)
I have a friend who tells a tale with statements parenthetical. To start at the beginning must to her seem quite heretical. For her accounts of happenings are full of disconnections. She starts them in the middle and proceeds in all directions.
Erica H. Stux
Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
Two friendships in two breasts requires the same aversions and desires.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
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