Friends Quotes - Page 21

• Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

  Francois Fenelon

  Friendship, Soul, Bears

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• It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Fiber, Friend Love

  George Eliot (2010). “The Works of George Eliot”, General Books

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• A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Friendship, Sorry, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Years, Elderly

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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• In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Thinking, Wisest Man

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

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• A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

  Torquato Tasso

  Trouble

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• Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Children, Kids

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• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Hero, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

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• Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

  Zig Ziglar

  Relationship, Family, Children

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Life! we've been long together
  Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
  Tis hard to part when friends are dear,-
  Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear.
  Then steal away, give little warning.
  Choose thine own time,
  Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime,
  Bid me "Good-morning."

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Life, Good Night, Morning

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.175, Broadview Press

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• Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

  Aristotle

  People, Littles, Sour

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.608, Simon and Schuster

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• An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Real, Truthful

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• Never speak ill of an absent friend.

  Plautus

  Speak, Absent Mindedness, Ill

  Plautus (2007). “The Rope and Other Plays”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Self

  "Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

  Prince William

  Believe, Special, Foundation

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• There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Childhood, Childhood Friend

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

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• Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

  Willa Cather

  Friendship, Men, Joy

  Willa Cather (1938). “The novels and stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Jealousy, Self

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• We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

  George W. Bush

  Israel, Support, Important

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• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

  Gary Busey

  Love, Enemy, Needs

  FaceBook post by Gary Busey from Mar 05, 2013

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• Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

  Sitting Bull

  Spring, Earth, Sun

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.477, Open Road Media

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• Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

  Arthur Bloch

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, Penguin

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