T Quotes
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“The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he does not really see you. He sees in his mind a face which does not exist anymore, speaks a name…which belongs to that non-existent face but which by some inane and doddering confusion of the universe is for the moment attached to a not too happily met and boring stranger.”
Source: All the King's Men
“The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he hasn’t the slightest concern with calculating his interest or your virtue. He doesn’t give a damn, for the moment, about Getting Ahead or Needs Must Admiring the Best, the two official criteria in adult friendships, and when the boring stranger appears, he puts out his hand and smiles (not really seeing your face) and speaks your name (which doesn’t really belong to your face), saying, “Well, Jack, damned glad you came, come on in, boy!”
“The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.”
“The friend that I spend all of my time with is called Mental Illness.”
“The "friend" who consistently points out the flaws in your plan, or uses a magnifying glass to find the defect in your product, or constantly searches for the chink in your armor, is the "friend" praying for your downfall. Watch and listen for the signs. Know your circle.
Real ones are cheering from the sidelines, not wishing it was them in the game.”
“The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.”
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson
“The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.”
Source: Selected poems
“The friend who puts salt on your wounds when you are injured was originally a silent enemy.”
“The friend who turns your friends into enemies is your worst enemy.”
“The friend who understands you, creates you.”
“The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.”
“The Friend Zone: It's like an employer turning you down for the job, then calling you weekly to complain about the guy they hired.”
“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.”
Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”
Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.”
Source: A Child's Garden of Verses
“The friendly Greens are easy to hang out with because they are so pleasant and genuinely care for others.”
Source: Surrounded by Idiots
“The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.”
“The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.”
“The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.”
“The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take care of their Bibles, that they be not mutilated or curtailed by lawless criticism; they must take care of their theology, that it be not perverted by false philosophy; and they must take care of their pulpits, that they be not occupied by heretical, unspiritual, or incompetent ministers.”
Source: An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times
“The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.”
Source: A Treatise on Money
“The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.”
“The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.”
“The friends that have it I do wrong
Whenever I remake a song,
Should know what issue is at stake:
It is myself that I remake.”
“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”
“The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.”
“The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.”
“The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.”
“The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.”
Source: Flat-Out Love
“The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.”
Source: The Family and Its Members
“The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.”
Source: History of the Colonization of the United States
“The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.”
Source: Secret of the Sands
“The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious
“The Friendship is a suicide, the question is "Are you ready to suicide?".”
“The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is he who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without our Host.”
Source: The Four Loves
“The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.”
“The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.”
“The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.”
Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities
“The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.”
“The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.”
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
“The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.”
“The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.”
“The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.”
“The friendship that you create between you and a mom - or you and an older woman figure - is so important and so influential. I think that my relationship with my sister, my relationship with my best friends - when I'm feeling really terrible about myself, they're always there to let me know that I am being dramatic about something, or I'm being stupid about something - it's good to have those kinds of people to drag you back down and protect you.”
“The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.”
Source: Under dispute
“The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.”