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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ACQUAINTANCE COMPANIONSHIP, (THE) COMPANY (YOU KEEP) DEDICATION FAMILIARITY FRIENDS GIFTS GREETINGS HAPPINESS HUGS IRISH TOASTS/BLESSINGS KNOWING (SOMEONE) LOYALTY PLEASING (OTHERS) RECOGNITION RELATIONSHIPS REUNIONS SECRETS TRUST --- One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. --Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American historian & man of letters. _The Education of Henry Adams_ [1907] 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. --Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. --Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher]. Friendship, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. --Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] {Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. --Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. --C.C. Colton (1780-1832) English clergyman and writer. In James Wood _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources_, p. 108 [1899]. 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. --Confucius (551-479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. _Analects_, xvi, c.500 B.C. from H.L. Mencken's _Dictionary of Quotations_ To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him--two. --Norman Douglas (1868-1952) Austrian-born British novelist and essayist. _Almanac_ [1941] - Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American philosopher and poet. "Friendship" _Essays_, First Series [1841] The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American philosopher and poet. - Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. --Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, screenplay, "Casablanca" [1942] [Rick speaking] There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. --Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English writer and physician. - True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island...to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. --Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. --Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. - Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature no one can possibly entirely approve of us. --Edgar Watson Howe (1854-1937) American journalist and author. _The Indignations of E.W. Howe_ [1933] The friendship that can cease has never been real. --Saint Jerome (c.340-420?) Translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. _Letter 3_ My life is spent in a perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely, and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored. --C.E.M. Joad (1891-1953) English philosopher. In "Observer" [12 Demember 1948]. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he soon will find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791], vol. II, ch. 2. What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much the weariness we have of the old ones or the pleasure of changing, as the disgust of not being admired enough by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those who do not know us as well. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678], Number 178 Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898-1963) British scholar and novelist. There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living. --Don Marquis (1878-1937) American poet and journalist. No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. --François Mauriac (1885-1970) French poet, novelist, and dramatist. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? --Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) French-born American writer. "San Francisco" _The Diary of Anaïs Nin_ [1944-1947] Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?-119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people we exist alone. Man is the only creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he aserts the contrary he is lying. --Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French novelist. _Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913-1927] "The Sweet Cheat Gone" True friendship is never serene. --Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696) French writer whose letters constitute one of the most celebrated collections of epistolary writing. _Lettres. A Madama de Grignan_ [10 September 1671] May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of love lose a feather. --Edward Bannerman Ramsey (1793-1872) [Dean of the University of Edinburgh]. _Reminiscences of Scottish Life: A Toast_ Friendship is dead: They were friends who go with the wind, And the wind was blowing at my door. --Rutebeuf (1245-1285) French poet. _La Complainte Rutebeuf_ Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. --George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. I had two friends. The one offered me friendship on such terms that I could not accept it without a sense of degradation. He would not meet me on equal terms, but only be to some extend my patron. He would not come to see me, but was hurt if I did not visit him. He would not readily accept a favor, but would gladly confer one. --Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Journal_ [4 March 1856] The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. --George Washington (1732-1799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775-1783] and first president of the United States [1789-1797]. - Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. --anon. "Friendship" Often attributed to George Eliot or Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) {ODTQ} or? A friend is one to whom one may pour out All the contents of one’s heart, Chaff and grain together. Knowing that the gentlest of hands Will take and sift it, Keeping what is worth keeping, And with a breath of kindness, Blow the rest away. --Arab Proverb ----- amity AM-uh-tee, noun: Friendship; friendly relations, especially between nations. end page | FABLE - FAME | FAILURE | FAMILIARITY - FANTASY | FARMING - FATE | FATHERS - FEELING SORRY | FEMINISTS - FIFTIES (THE) | FIFTY - FLAG | FLATTERY - FOLLOWERS | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 1 (A-O) | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 2 (P-Z) | FOOLISH - FORESIGHT | FOREST - FRAUDS | FREE - FREE TRADE | FREEDOM | FRENCH (THE) - FRIENDS | FRIENDSHIP | FRUGAL - FUTURE | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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