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Friends and friendship

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

10.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

11.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

32.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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.

Jong, Erica

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

46.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

49.

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

Mccormack, Mark

50.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce