Friendship
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Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more people. It can be taken to mean a supportive relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection.
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- The beauty of friendship so deep and nurturing, with infinite laughter is that it comes with no price and shall always be carried in your heart.
- Jenny Acasio, in Strain for Eric Grossmann
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
- Ali, in A Hundred Sayings
- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
- Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things, — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon, quoting Alonso de Aragon, in Apothegms, No. 97, as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition (1919); Alonso's statement is also the source of another rendition:
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- Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read! — Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things.
- * Melchior de Santa Cruz, Floresta Española de Apothegmas o sentencias, etc., ii. 1, 20, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition (1919)
- I get by with a little help from my friends.
- I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them them that keep thy precepts.
- A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.
- The Bible, Proverbs 17:17 (NRSV)
- A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- The Bible Proverbs 18:24 (New International Version)
- Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
- The Bible, Proverbs 27:6 (NASB)
- A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter;
he who finds one finds a treasure.
A faithful friend is beyond price,
no sum can balance his worth.
- Sirach 6:14-15 (The New American Bible)
- Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- The Bible, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
- The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
- Dinah Craik, in A Life for a Life (1859); since the 1930s this has also been published in many paraphrased forms, often uncredited to Craik, including: 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, Keep what's worth keeping And blow the rest away.
- Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
- "Michael Corleone" in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola; this has often become attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Niccolò Machiavelli or Petrarch, but there are no published sources yet found which predate its use in the second Godfather film, where Corleone states: My father taught me many things here — he taught me in this room. He taught me — keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
- Le sort fait les parents, la choix fait les amis.
- Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
- Jacques Delille, in Malheur at Pitié (1803), Canto I
- A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, in "Friendship" in Essays, First series (1841)
- A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start.
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Oeuvres poétiques
- Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
- Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet (1923)
- I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
- Oliver Goldsmith, in She Stoops to Conquer, Act I, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition (1919)
- Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
- Jean Hérault, sieur de Gourville as quoted in Considérations sur l'esprit et les moeurs (1788) by Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan; a similar remard "May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies." has become attributed to Voltaire, since at least 1908, but without sourcing.
- Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
- Sir Arthur Helps. ‘Unreasonable Claims in Social Affections and Relations’, Ch. IX, Friends in Council (First Series) (1847)
- The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
- Elbert Hubbard. ‘Exclusive Friendships’, Love, Life & Work (1906)
- One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and more symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
- Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World (1932)
- Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- Jesus, in John 15:13
- Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his.
- Franklin P. Jones, in Saturday Evening Post (29 November 1953)
- What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, — in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
- Shackerley Marmionin The Antiquary, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition (1919)
- A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back — it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.
The joy of such a pattern is not only the joy of creation or the joy of participation, it is also the joy of living in the moment. Lightness of touch and living in the moment are intertwined. One cannot dance well unless one is completely in time with the music, not leaning back to the last step or pressing forward to the next one, but poised directly on the present step as it comes. Perfect poise on the beat is what gives good dancing its sense of ease, of timelessness, of the eternal.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in Gift from the Sea
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anaïs Nin, Diary entry (March 1937)
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen, in Out of Solitude (1996)
- But remember! when it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!
- Eiichiro Oda, "Mr. 2 Bon Clay" in One Piece
- Al amigo todo, al enemigo ni justicia.
- Everything for a friend, not even justice for an enemy.
- Juan Domingo Perón, as quoted in Dictatorship, Democracy, and Globalization: Argentina and the Cost of Paralysis, 1973-2001 (2009) by Klaus Friedrich Veigel
- To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
- Sallust, as quoted in The Quotation Dictionary (1962) by Robin Hyman
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Scots proverb, as published in Beauties of Allan Ramsay: Being a Selection of the Most Admired Pieces of that Celebrated Author, viz. The Gentle Shepherd; Christ's Kirk on the Green; The Monk, and the Miller's Wife; with his valuable collection of Scots Proverbs (1815), "Scots Proverbs" Ch. 1; also quoted in Pure Morning, a song by Placebo.
- Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
- John Selden, in "Friends" in Table Talk (1689)
- If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
- Stone Temple Pilots in "Still Remains" on Purple (1994)
- Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go astray.
- Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 784
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
- William Butler Yeats, The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
- Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre.
- Robert Hall, p. 254.
- A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen.
- Jeremy Taylor, p. 254.
- I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself.
- Dr. Thomas Arnold, p. 254.
- Friendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart.
- Charles Mildway, p. 255.
- Character is so largely affected by associations that we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who and what our friends are. They write their names in our albums, but they do more, they help make us what we are. Be therefore careful in selecting them; and when wisely selected, never sacrifice them.
- M. Hulburd, p. 255.
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