Friends Quotes - Page 36

• One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Doe, Trouble, Permit

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”

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• If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Secret, Persons, Ifs

  Lisa Birnbach, Patricia Marx, Ann Hodgman (1999). “1,003 Great Things about Friends”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

  Judith Martin

  Good Friend, Helping, Trouble

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.

  Marita Golden

  Baby, Husband, Play

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.32, Anchor

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• The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Country, Effort

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.155

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• Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Relation

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.

  George Herbert

  Salt

  "Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert". Book compiled by George Herbert et al., 1651.

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• O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
  Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Enemy, Protect

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, Fire

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Faults, Individual, Certain

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• How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Sick, House

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 181 (1783)

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• Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing he would do is create categories; the avowed purpose of Zen is to eliminate categories! The true Zen-man holds to the old Taoist proverb,
  Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

  Tom Hoover

  Art, Men, Intuition

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• Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Family, Beautiful, Lonely

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• The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

  Humphry Davy

  Life Is, Ideal Life, Acquaintance

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• To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

  Suzanne Massie

  Real, Real Friends, Take Time

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Night

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• Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

  Betty Ford

  Senior, School, Blood

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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• I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Sex

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• Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Depressing, Girlfriend, Overweight

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• A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

  Christian D. Larson

  Optimism, Feels, Improving Yourself

  "Your Forces and How to Use Them".

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• A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

  Kate Greenaway

  Morning, Grateful, Feelings

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• For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
  The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Beautiful, Wise, Sleep

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• However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Understanding

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