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“Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.”

Knows Needs Persons Shows Seems Friendship Kindness Receiving

Author:Colin Powell

“Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.”

Problem Pain Energy Friendship Share Amount Essentials Enormous Hiding Liberating Hiding Pain

Author:Carly Simon

“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.”

Two Eye Friendship

Author:Norman Douglas

“The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.”

Men Earth Friendship He Man Misers

Author:Robert E. Sherwood

“By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.”

Friendship Listening Unique Instinct Caring

Author:Gail Sheehy

“There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.”

Looks Doe Reason Sound Friendship Animal Results Instinct Deny Pursue No Reason Pathetic Eagerness Animal Instinct

Book:Friendship

Source: Friendship

“He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.”

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.”

Ifs Love Life Said Success Friendship Negative Love Life

Author:Scott Boras

“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”

Death Dies Friendship Loses Stage Dying Lost Friendship Good God Lost Friend Losing Friends

Author:Alexander Pope

“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.”

Lost Realizing Friendship Mercy Seven

Author:Jean Cocteau

“A man's best friends are his ten fingers.”

Men Self Friendship Friends Ten Fingers Best Friend Clergymen

Author:Robert Collyer

“When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'”

Men Firsts Said Names Friendship Dog He Man My Dog Dog Rescue Cute Dog Man And Dog Cute Puppy Wild Dogs

Book:Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

“Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.”

Two Enjoy Friendship Company Genuine Cute Friendship Funny Friendship Two Friends Sweet Friendship Cute Friend Genuine Friendship Genuine Friends

Author:Georg Ebers

“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.”

Knows Should Song Friendship Issues Crafts Stakes Remakes

Author:William Butler Yeats

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Young Courses Can Do Friendship Style Becoming Elements Happy Favors Copies Aspire Being Happy Feeling Happy Young Writers Aspiring Writers Young Friends

Author:Dorothy Parker

“It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”

Desire Friendship Satisfaction Desirable Love And Friendship Unsatisfied

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.”

Ifs Firsts Long Dies Evil Friendship Wall Devil Angel Saint Love And Friendship Spawn

Book:Petals on the wind

Source: Petals on the wind

“Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”

Love Friendship Share Dignity Love And Friendship Abode Personal Dignity Dignity And Love

Author:Ovid

“I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.”

Looks Eye Friendship Animal Dog Like You Mets Creatures My Family I Realized Pet Animal Rights

Author:Ziggy Marley

“I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend.”

Author:Andy Cohen

“With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.”

Men Looks Ends Eye Joy Friendship Animal Poor Rich Dog Masters Creatures Aids Faithful Guardian Solace Rich Man Poor Man Faithful Dogs

Author:George Crabbe

“I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Enough Moments Body Friendship Dog Masters Graves Pet Thrown Stirring

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.”

People Kind Age Friendship Differences Dog Essentials Pet

Book:The confessions of a lost dog

Source: The confessions of a lost dog

“I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.”

“After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.”

People Feels Years Speak Friendship Dog Reflection Regard Prepared Lifetime Conclusion Observation Pet Affectionate

Book:Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

Source: Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

“Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.”

Men Doe Body Friendship Dog Humility Masters Ears Lips Beloved Pet Tails

Book:The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.”

Years Firsts Stills I Can Home School Friendship Forget Boys Dog Mets Six Pet Association After School

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”

Ifs Looks Sometimes Kids Friendship Dog Baby Ears Died Noses Pet Look At Me My Dog Dogs Dying

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“I know you're shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.”

Knows Way Together Lost Heaven Friendship Loss Sweet Shining Many Friends Shining Down

Author:Mariah Carey

“Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.”

World Friendship Enemy Friends

Book:Redemption

Source: Redemption

“The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.”

People Men Mind Doe Friendship Quality Wise Capable Extremes Comparison Permit

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.”

World Friendship Pleasure Vices League

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.”

People Should Trying Firsts Important Names Friendship Pleasure Forever Effects Calling Importance Print Boast Loathe Cringe Braggarts

Book:Still seeing things

Source: Still seeing things

“Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.”

Should Friendship Lost Friendship Biting

Book:Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.”

Feelings Social Friendship Capacity Credit Stations True Friend Complacency Social Life

Author:Sarah Ellis

“I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.”

I Can Book Use Friendship My Friends

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.”

Different Friendship Creative Environment Excited Contact Sensitive Electricity Relaxed Casual Energetic Serene Different Environments

Author:Andrew Greeley

“Never deceive a friend.”

Friendship Deceiving

Author:Hipparchus

“If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.”

Ifs Friendship Enemy Regard Predicaments

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.”

Dies Friendship Silence Wise Comfort Weary Silence Is Pilgrimage Negligence

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.”

Ifs Life Care Friendship Pleasure Company Mountain

Book:Letters ... with a sketch of his life

Source: Letters ... with a sketch of his life

“Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.”

Needs Shows Humor Funny Friendship Friends Show Me Pests Friend In Need

Author:Joe E. Lewis

“All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.”

People Stills Humor Funny Friendship Business Friends Equal All Things Being Equal

Author:Mark McCormack

“Every girl needs a bestfriend to help her laugh when she thinks she`ll never smile again”

Thinking Needs Helping Girl Friendship Laughing Every Girl Make Her Smile

Author:Cassie Ventura

“Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.”

Friendship Animal Dog Admire Vanity Pet Homage Canine Colossal Dog Training Poodle Dogs Two Dogs Dogs And Life Faithful Dogs

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.”

World Friendship

Author:George Santayana

“You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.”

Reason Friendship Pleasure Evidence Absolutes No Reason

Author:David Shore

“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.”

Men Littles Friendship Dislike

Author:E. W. Howe

“I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.”

Thinking Romance Young Girl Friendship My Best Friend Best Friendship Female Friendship Young Life Great Romance

Author:Lena Dunham

“The best relationships develop out of friendships.”

Friendship Best Relationship

Author:Diane Keaton