A Quotes
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“A friend will stand by you when you’re wrong. Anyone will stand by you when you’re right.”
“A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“A friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.”
“A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“a friend with weed is a friend indeed...”
“A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.”
“A friend writes of the numbing effects of humming and it returns you to your own sigh. It's no longer audible. You've grown into it. Some call it aging--an internalized liquid smoke blurring ordinary ache.”
Source: Citizen: An American Lyric
“A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.”
“A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.”
“A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.”
“A friend's only gift is himself.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.”
“A friend, who's a psychologist, told me about a patient once: a woman who was well educated, had a good job, a house and a loving husband. "I did everything right in my life," said the woman. "But I'm still not happy." She never did what she herself wanted, but what she believed society expected from her.”
“A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...”
Source: A Passage to India
“A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.”
Source: Gandhi's Bible
“A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.”
“A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.”
“A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.”
“A friendship can't survive on childhood memories alone. We have to create new experiences, or the friendship will shrivel up.”
Source: I See London, I See France
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.”
“A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.”
Source: Letters
“A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.”
Source: What a Girl Wants
“A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.”
Source: Tablets
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
“A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think.”
“A friendship never sinks. If it does, sail on. Leave behind the tidal waves. Always be on the lookout for the upcoming icebergs ready to hit.”
“a friendship so small it can fit into tiny boxes you place inside
other tiny boxes until the box
just disappears.”
Source: Atoms and Evers
“A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.”
“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore
“A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。1
“A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.”
“A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.”
“A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.”
“A frightened man is a beaten man.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.”
“A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.”
Source: History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great
“A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.”
“A frisson of fear skittered down Clara's spine. She'd paid the electric bill for the patisserie she'd opened a few months earlier on the last day for payment listed on the disconnect notice. Surely the utility company hadn't shut off her service by mistake." Tarts & Turnovers”
Source: Tarts & Turnovers
“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.”
“A frog in a well does not know the great sea.”
Source: The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth
“A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.”
“A frog is very interesting. He sits like us, too, you know. But he does not think that he is doing anything so special. When you go to a zendo and sit, you may think you are doing some special thing. While your husband or wife is sleeping, you are practicing zazen! You are doing some special thing, and your spouse is lazy! That may be your understanding of zazen. But look at the frog. A frog also sits like us, but he has no idea of zazen. Watch him. If something annoys him, he will make a face. If something comes along to eat, he will snap it up and eat, and he eats sitting. Actually that is our zazen—not any special thing.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.”
“A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.”
Source: Country editor's boy
“A frown lowered his brow as he headed toward the shower, stripping as he went. She was untried. Virginal in mind and spirit. The innocence that hovered about her, disparate with her wily reporter persona, teased Adrian’s senses like an aphrodisiac.
She wasn’t the kind of woman who could give away sex without giving away her heart, and he liked that in her, that vulnerability. It was, at the very core, something new and different in his world. It also stood as a reminder of another time, when he believed in the wholesomeness, the rightness of desire. Desire earned and given freely, not bought, before he knew its worth could be meted out in paper currency.
She was hot-blooded and sensuous too, and didn’t seem aware of it. It called to the primal male in him, made him restless and hungry to touch her. But tonight a deeper part of him had won out, preserved the strange wholesomeness between them and shielded it from the anomaly his lifestyle had become because of sex.
Maybe, at the very bottom of it, he knew a whore—even a high-priced one—didn’t deserve a woman like Billie. She was reality, gritty and truthful and tangible. He…he was a phantom born out of Azure Elan’s sensuous imagination.”
Source: The Fifth Favor
“A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.”
“A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.”
“A frugalidade nada tem a ver com a pobreza, mas tudo com a prosperidade. Tudo depende de se viver com gratidão, não com carência.”
Source: Money Mindfulness: Cómo Generar, Conservar y Multiplicar tu Dinero