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“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.”

Ifs Feels Should Mind Bits Share Mines Friends Sorrow Invites

Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

“In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.”

Ifs Seems Would Be Kids Age Order Wonderful Childhood Friends Old Age Celebrate Birthday Celebration

Author:Robert Breault

“If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

Author:Muhammad Ali

“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”

Ifs May Friendship Advice Friends Ten Refuse Nine Lost Friendship

Author:Claudine Guerin de Tencin

“But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.”

Ifs Stills Ends Hands Games Sports Friendship Friends Golf Opponents Shakes The End Of The Day Friendliness Handshake

Author:Payne Stewart

“I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.”

“I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.”

Ifs Want Friendship Dog Friends

Author:Alan Sugar

“When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.”

People Ifs Friendship Impossible Friends Married Ties

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Real Shows Would Be Together Friendship Friends Easier Harmony Be Good Contact Block Vulnerable Mask Real Talk

Author:Liv Ullmann

“In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.”

Ifs Years May Enough Friendship Talking Goes On Friends Leaving Invisible Glue Getting High Leave Me Alone Bad Relationship Bad Marriage

Author:Erica Jong

“I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Shows Guy Sides Friends Tough Down And Opening Sensitive Relax Opening Up Jocks

Author:Channing Tatum

“And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that”

Ifs Believe Opinion Students Judging Friends Down And Shoulders Believe In God Biologist Ucla Personal Opinions

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Attitude Enemy Friends One Day Perception Catholic Positive Attitude Theologian Cardinals Attitude Adjustment

Book:The Idea of a University

Source: The Idea of a University

“Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.”

Ifs Government Might Three Friendship Pay Four Pride Friends Wise Words Taxes Heavy Neighbor Complaining Folly Three Times Idleness Poor Richard Discharge Tax Day

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.”

Ifs I Can Jesus Christ Religious Mistake Friends Bears Errors Faults Wrong Preacher Baptists Rebuke

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 5: Sermons 225-285

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 5: Sermons 225-285

“If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.”

People Ifs Way Trying Made Real Interest Friendship Friends Sincere Impress Real Friends Best Friend Lecturer Developers Inspirational Friendship Sincere Friends

Book:How to win friends & influence people

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.”

Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

“When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."”

Ifs Knows World War Friends Murder Stranger Boards War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I

Author:Oscar Levant

“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”

Ifs Men Firsts Heart Reason Winning Causes Friendship Friends Convince Sincere Honey Gallons Unassuming Sincere Friends

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.”

Ifs Looks Eye Turns Friends Pages Prepared

Author:Viktor Yushchenko

“The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.”

Ifs Men Believe Long Country Dies Differences Situation Blood Friends My Friends Conquer Devoted Believe In Me Retreat Conquest Impossibility

Author:James Wolfe

“At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.”

People Ifs Knows Night Wish Friends Mouths Hollywood Theater Ill Spread Agents Grants Gossip Every Night Word Of Mouth Preview

Author:Peter Stone

“The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.”

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.”

Ifs Needs Heart Friends Hundred Mates Cents Our Relationship Many Friends Friend In Need

Author:Bill Cosby

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