Friends Quotes - Page 20

• The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Mean, People

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

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• Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

  Mason Cooley

  Drinking, Accomplices

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• An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Enemy, Dangerous, Prudence

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• My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

  Mason Cooley

  Young Friends, Youth, Young

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• All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

  Menander

  Good Friend, Men, Doe

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• Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Want, Wells, Plenty

  Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.89

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• There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ties, Unity, Wish

  "Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", II, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 827-28,

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• The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

  Laurence Sterne

  World, May, Sometimes

  Laurence Sterne (1847). “Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C”, p.93

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• Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

  Robert N. Lee

  Friendship, Treachery

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• We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”

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• The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.448, Modern Library

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• You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

  Bill Cosby

  Heart, Needs, Our Relationship

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• You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Spiritual, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

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• Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Insects, Draws, Humans

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• A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Hope, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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• Ones oldest friend is the best.

  Plautus

  Oldest Friends

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• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

  Meg Tilly

  Character, Yarn, Balls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Apology, Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

  Albert Camus

  Sympathy, Heartache, Guilt

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• Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Happy Birthday, Years, Inspirational Birthday

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• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
  and tolerates your success.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Friendship, Patience

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Learning

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

  Muriel Barbery

  Inspiring, Wells, One Friend

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2008.

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