What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
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Friendship Quotes — page 26
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"For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a …
An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be …
Friendship craves The commerce of the mind, not the exchange Of emulous feasts that foster sycophants.
If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
It was enemies one wanted, not friends.
Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, …
My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
And friend received with thumps upon the back.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous
Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all My friends and brother souls, With all the peoples, great and small, That wheel between the poles.
[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
Instead of combating my slight prejudice against you as uncharitable, I mean to cherish it, until I am convinced that I have no reason to distrust this kind, insinuating friendship you are so anxious to push upon me.
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
92. A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort ; but a Friend is both.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
