Quotes with friend

Quotes 281 till 300 of 381.

  • Barbara Kingsolver The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The good man is the friend of all living things.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Emma Goldman The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • William Cowper The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Adam Smith The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Homer The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Lord George Byron The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Agnes de Mille The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Robert Alan The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benigno Aquino III The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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