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“Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.”

Mean Doe Nations Friendship Community Family Relationship Blood Description Organisation Family Friends Blood Relatives

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”

Inspirational Doe Motivational Difficult Friendship Animal Cat Philosophical Affection Pet Pet Animals Animal Behavior Cat Lover

Author:Theophile Gautier

“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.”

Men Doe Friendship Virtue Assumption Superiority

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

“In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.”

Love Giving Doe Friendship Friends Goodness Draws My Friends Experts Good Friend True Friend True Friendship

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.”

Doe Friendship Constant Contact Chains Attrition

Book:Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

Knows May Doe Literature Friendship Inspiring Money Friends Jane

Author:Jane Austen

“The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.”

Doe Has Beens Term Friendship Telling The Truth Providing Joints Indonesia Amnesty Prosecution

Author:Jose Ramos-Horta

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”

“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.”

Ifs Doe Friendship Dating Girlfriend Life And Death Stolen Your Best Friend Your Girlfriend Be My Girlfriend

Author:Ben Kingsley

“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

Love Children Doe Literature Friendship Family Delight Family Love Great Friend Cholera Love Your Family Lovely Family Love And Family Beautiful Family

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Author:Plutarch

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

Inspirational Doe Friendship Depends Depth Length Acquaintance Inspirational Friendship Depth Of Love

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”

Doe Friendship Loss Enemy Friends Loss Of A Friend

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.”

Doe Friendship Separation

Author:Tennessee Williams

“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”

Men Heart Doe Black Friendship Secret Saws Laughter Mark Blame Wit Angle Absent Absent Friends

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.”

Knows Doe Two Remember Friendship Memories Forget Know How Happened Never Forget

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

Love May Doe Grows Friendship Love You

Author:Lord Byron

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”

“Adversity does teach who your real friends are.”

Doe Real Friendship Teach Adversity Real Friends Who Your Real Friends Are

Book:A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

“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

“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

“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

“I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.”

Firsts Doe Stills Bigs Friendship Loses Source Perspective Comfort My Friends Believer Isolated First Lady Source Of Strength Strength And Comfort

Author:Nancy Reagan

“Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon”

People Ifs Love Mean Doe Happiness Friendship Family Relationship Wall Weapons

Author:Joyce Meyer

“You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good”

People Love Should Doe Happiness Values Friendship Poor Family Rich Relationship Balance Size Being Rich Good Family

Author:Jackie Ballard

“A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.”

Inspirational Doe Country Names Friendship Worthy Great Country

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."”

Feels Doe Friendship Hurt Movement Warm Coats Wrinkles Hurt Me Old Friends Complacent Deformity

Author:Victor Hugo

“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

Men Long Doe Friendship Let Me Absence Affliction

Author:Ovid

“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.”

Men May Long Doe Desire Values Friendship Type Needed Activity Circles Acquaintance Long Life Comradeship

Book:The Family and Its Members

Source: The Family and Its Members