Friendship

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  • Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
        George Santayana   Best?
  • Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
        Robert Lynd   Best?
  • Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
        William James   Best?
  • True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
        Charles Caleb Colton   Best?
  • Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
        Sir W. Temple   Best?
  • A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
        John D. Rockefeller Jr.   Best?
  • Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
        Joseph Addison   Best?
  • The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
        Sir Hugh Walpole   Best?
  • Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
        Ogden Nash   Best?
  • 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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
        George Washington   Best?
  • One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
        Etty Hillesum   Best?
  • The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
        David Storey   Best?
  • In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
        Jane Haddam   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
        Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
        Madame de Tencin   Best?
  • If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
        Nathaniel Branden   Best?
  • Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
        Max L. Forman   Best?
  • The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
        Cicero   Best?
  • It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
        Colette   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
        Samuel Butler   Best?
  • As humans, we show one of two sides to people, according to which seems the more appropriate. We know who our friends are when we show both sides.
        Nadia Key   Best?
  • A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
        Walter Winchell   Best?

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