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| ISBN-13: | 9780486110134 |
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| Publisher: | Dover Publications |
| Publication date: | 11/06/2012 |
| Series: | Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 64 |
| File size: | 475 KB |
| Age Range: | 14 - 18 Years |
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Friendship
A Book of Quotations
By Herb Galewitz
Dover Publications, Inc.
Copyright © 1999 Dover Publications, Inc.All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-486-11013-4
CHAPTER 1
A friend in power is a friend lost.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
HENRY ADAMS
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
GEORGE ADE
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
BRONSON ALCOTT
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness; and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
ARISTOTLE
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
JANE AUSTEN
Cosmus, duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends: 'That we read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.'
A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
You may take sarza to open the liver; steel to open the spleen; flowers of sulphur for the lungs; castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
No friend is a friend till he shall prove a friend.
BEAUMONT & FLETCHER
Having said, from our respective points of view, the worst thing we can say about each other, having uttered the ultimate insult, there's no reason we can't be friends.
S. N. BEHRMAN
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
ARNOLD BENNETT
To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.
TRISTAN BERNARD
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
THE BIBLE (NEW TESTAMENT)
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
Wealth maketh many friends.
THE BIBLE (OLD TESTAMENT)
Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
Acquaintance: A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
Our friends see the best in us, and by that very fact call forth the best from us.
JOHN BLACK
The poor make no new friends:—
But, oh! they love the better still
The few our Father sends.
HELEN SELINA BLACKWOOD (LADY DUFFERIN)
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society!
ROBERT BLAIR
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy—for friendship's sake.
I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
Few there are that will endure a true friend.
He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.
H. G. BOHN
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us as we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
ROBERT BROWNING
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has too few.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
LUTHER BURBANK
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
SAMUEL BUTLER
I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Let no man grumble when his friends fall off,
As they will do like leaves at the first breeze:
When your affairs come round, one way or t'other,
Go to the coffee-house, and take another.
But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE CORDON)
Give me the avowed, erect and manly foe;
Firm I can meet, perhaps return the blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me, from the candid friend.
GEORGE CANNING
Do you want to make friends? Be friendly. Forget yourself.
DALE CARNEGIE
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; ... it is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Treasure that gadfly, that friend who shows you your faults.
FRANK CASE
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
WILLA CATHER
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.
SÉBASTIEN CHAMFORT
Trust not a reconciled friend, for good turns cannot blot out old grudges.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Friends through fortune become enemies through mishap.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages—first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; he hurts me most who lavishly commends.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
You must ... love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
CICERO
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth.
Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air;
Love them for what they are; nor love them less,
Because to thee they are not what they were.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
To accept a favour from a friend is to confer one.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation; these are advantages. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued; these are injurious.
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
CONFUCIUS
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumping on your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.
I would not enter on my list of friends,
(Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
WILLIAM COWPER
What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.
FRANK CRANE
Good fellowship is common, but unchanging affection is not.
CLARENCE DAY
The best way to keep your friends is to never borrow from them and never lend them anything.
PAUL DE KOCK
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE
Friends are as dangerous as enemies.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
Friends—those relations that one makes for one's self.
EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS
A friend to all is a friend to none.
When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."
DIOGENES LÄERTIUS
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.
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Friends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNE
To find a friend one must close one eye—to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
The wretched have no friends.
JOHN DRYDEN
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE
Friendships which are born in misfortune are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness.
THOMAS D'URFEY
So, if I live or die to serve my friend,
'Tis for my love—'tis for my friend alone,
And not for any rate that friendship bears
In heaven or on earth.
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I could find them, but I seldom use them.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all—friends?
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor, busy men can usually command.
It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reinforce ourselves or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus or thus, I know it was right.
A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult.
When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
EPICTETUS
When ill befalls, a friend's kind eye beams comfort.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
OWEN FELTHAM
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
A woman-friend! He that believes that weakness steers in a stormy night without a compass.
JOHN FLETCHER
Old dog Tray's ever faithful;
Grief can not drive him away;
He is gentle, he is kind—
I'll never, never find
A better friend than old dog Tray!
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
A false Friend and a Shadow attend only while the Sun shines.
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
There are three faithful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
ROBERT FROST
A reconciled Friend is a double Enemy.
Even reckonings keep long friends.
All are not friends that speak us fair.
He's a friend that speaks well on's behind our backs.
Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
He is my friend that succoreth me, not he that pitieth me.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
May it please God not to make our friends so happy as to forget us!
Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy soul: he'll be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen thy prosperity. He goes away heavy loaded: and thou must bear half.
A broken friendship may be solder'd, but will never be sound.
THOMAS FULLER
"What is the secret of your life?" asked Mrs. Browning of Charles Kingsley. "Tell me, that I may make mine beautiful, too." He replied: "I had a friend."
RELATED BY WILLIAM CHANNING GARRETT
A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
From wine that sudden friendships spring.
Friendship, like love, is but a name.
An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.
'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends.
Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
JOHN GAY
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
DAVE TYSON GENTRY
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him?
WILLIAM GILLETTE
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Liking and even love contribute nothing to friendship.
GOETHE
And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep:
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
But leaves the wretch to weep?
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
(Continues...)
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