Friends Quotes - Page 6

• Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

  Joe Cocker

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Vanity, Littles

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• How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Friendship, People, Delight

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Happiness, Smile

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.67, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Motto Book (1907)

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• Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

  Owen Feltham

  Love Is, Flames, Friend Love

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• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Friendship, Accountability

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• He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Weakness

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• Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

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• Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

  Horace

  Wise, Kings, Soul

  Horace (1709). “Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem”, p.17

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• Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

  Jonathan Swift

  Enemy, Misfortunes

  Jonathan Swift, “Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.”

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• He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

  Plautus

  Dubious, Deeds, Aids

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley”, p.427

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• In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Girl, Cousin

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• Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Leader, Affection, Complement

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.84

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• At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Together, Forgotten, Found

  Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1898). “The writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

  Plutarch

  Pain, True Friend, Giving

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• O friend, my bosom said,
  Through thee alone the sky is arched.
  Through thee the rose is red;
  All things through thee take nobler form,
  And look beyond the earth,
  The mill-round of our fate appears
  A sun-path in thy worth.
  Me too thy nobleness has taught
  To master my despair;
  The fountains of my hidden life
  Are through thy friendship fair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Sky, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.248, Modern Library

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• Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, People, Feelings

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Writing, Finals

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.42, RosettaBooks

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• Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Doe, Want

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1866). “The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred”

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