A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Friendship
Short friendship quotes
Short lines about friends for a birthday card, a caption under an old photo or a message to someone you have not seen in too long. Every quote is 30 words or fewer. Anne Shirley finds kindred spirits, Emerson says the only way to have a friend is to be one, Mark Twain says a joy needs someone to share it, and Thoreau keeps a chair for friendship. Wilde and Ambrose Bierce supply two less sentimental lines for the friend who would prefer a joke. All public domain and copied word for word from the original book.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables, 1908 · Chapter XIX: A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
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Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey’d,Such seems your beauty still.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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