Friends Quotes - Page 29

• Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

  Mark McCormack

  Funny, Friendship, Business

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• There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Two, Friend Valentine, Can Do

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• For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

  Willow Bay

  Impact, Speak Less, Maximum

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• 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

  Life, Friendship, Balls

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• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Friendship, Force

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.87

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• In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

  Erica Jong

  Friendship, Bad Relationship, Talking

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• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  Leon Uris

  Friendship, Enemy, World

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real, Bears

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 85

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• There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Humility, Men, Vices

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Friendship

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• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Eye, Tears

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• Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

  Anne Roiphe

  Friendship, Hands, Needs

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• When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

  James Boswell

  Friendship, Men, People

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• One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship

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• When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Friendship, Ties, People

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• Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Friendship, Expectations, Contracts

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• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Goodbye, Farewell

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. 14

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  But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

  Payne Stewart

  Friendship, Sports, Golf

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• I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

  James Boswell

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

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• About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

  Ayn Rand

  Simple, Construction Workers, Views

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• Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

  Victor Hugo

  Enemy, Sometimes

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