Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bonds That Tie - Page 42

Celebrate the bonds of friendship with our handpicked quotes. Cherish and appreciate your friends through timeless words. Page 42 provides more friendship quotes.

Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of George Eliot
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. . . .
- George Eliot
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Bob Dylan
Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Bob Dylan
I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.
- Bob Dylan
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How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.
- Bob Dylan
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I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Bob Dylan
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.
- Bob Dylan
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I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Charles Alexander Eastman
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
- Charles Alexander Eastman
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Image of Wayne Dyer
People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of Bob Dylan
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
- Bob Dylan
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Image of George Eliot
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
- George Eliot
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Bob Dylan
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.
- Bob Dylan
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There ought to be a law about you coming around.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Bob Dylan
The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Lena Dunham
I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.
- Lena Dunham
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Image of Bob Dylan
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.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Jennifer Aniston
She's been there for me in a lot of ways, and she really is just the most dependable and loyal and funny as all get out. I mean, she just cracks me up. Constantly.
- Jennifer Aniston
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Image of George Eliot
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot
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Image of Henry Van Dyke
These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.
- Henry Van Dyke
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of Vera Farmiga
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.
- Vera Farmiga
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Henry Fielding
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
- Henry Fielding
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Image of Henry Fielding
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.
- Henry Fielding
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These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
- Henry Fielding
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Image of B. C. Forbes
A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?
- B. C. Forbes
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Image of T. S. Eliot
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
- T. S. Eliot
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Maya Angelou
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your friendships in repair.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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