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Giovanni G. Casanova:Laugh at your friends, and


Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
by Giovanni G. Casanova


Thomas Fuller:Friendship increases in visiting


Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
by Thomas Fuller


Alexander Pope:A decent boldness ever meets with


A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
by Alexander Pope


Tupper:A good book is the best of friends, the


A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
by Tupper


Cicero:Every man can tell how many goats or


Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
by Cicero


François La Rochefoucauld:It is more shameful to


It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
by François La Rochefoucauld


H.L. Mencken:When a man laughs at his troubles


When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
by H.L. Mencken


George Santayana:Friendship is almost always the


Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
by George Santayana


Sophocles:One's own escape from troubles makes


One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
by Sophocles


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:Yes, we must ever be


Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Edna Saint Vincent Millay:My candle burns at


My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
by Edna Saint Vincent Millay


Seneca:Everywhere is nowhere. When a person


Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
by Seneca


Bible:Greater love hath no man than this, that a


Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13, KJV)
by Bible


Homer:There is nothing nobler or more admirable


There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
by Homer


Edwin A. Robinson:Life is the game that must be


Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
by Edwin A. Robinson


Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton:Whatever the number


Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton


William Cowper:I would not enter in my list of


I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
by William Cowper


Johann Kaspar Lavater:Be assured those will be


Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
by Johann Kaspar Lavater


Bruno Bettelheim:Most advice on child-rearing is


Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.
by Bruno Bettelheim


John Donne:No man is an Island, entire of it


No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as ifa promitory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
by John Donne


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