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Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.
Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.
He who hath many friends hath none.
A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.
He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.
Make use of your friends by being of use to them.
Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.
Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.
I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.
You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.
do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.
Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
It's not really important that Tip was a good dog to hunt over, but it is important to me that she was a good dog to be with. She was my pal. We enjoyed being with each other. I don't know that you can ask for much more.
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .
It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.
They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.
Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well.
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
A friend married is a friend lost.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.
The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.