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  • What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

    Real   Voice   Laughing  
    Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition
  • An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60
  • Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  • I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

    Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
  • He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

    "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.
  • A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press
  • No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

    Divorce   Men   Wife  
  • The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

  • Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

    Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)
  • When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

  • It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing
  • In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

    Honore de Balzac (1884). “Cousin Pons”, p.35, Library of Alexandria
  • Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  • This song of mine Is a song of the vine To be sung by the glowing embers Of wayside inns, When the rain begins To darken the drear Novembers. and For the richest and best Is the wind of the West That grows by the Beautiful River; Whose sweet perfume Fills all the room With a bension on the giver. and When you ask one friend to dine, Give hime your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do.

    Beautiful   Song   Sweet  
  • One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  • The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  • When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

    Sympathy   Women   Two  
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage
  • Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

    Party   Two   Needs  
  • Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

    "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.
  • In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

    Lonely   Writing   Mean  
  • The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.

    Mother   Father   Faces  
  • When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

    Voice   Void   Like You  
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  • it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  • A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

    Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”
  • I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

    Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford
  • Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

    Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster
  • It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

    Country   War   Iraq  
  • A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

    Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.
  • I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

    Night   Echoes   Silence  
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