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Quotations by Subject: Friendship
(Related Subjects: Love, Charity, Enemies)
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Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.: John Churton Collins
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 02-25-09
You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 03-26-08
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.: Madame de Tencin
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.: Pierre Charron
Friends have all things in common.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedrus
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-04-10
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)

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