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“Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never thought upon.”
Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie Quotes Source: from his old poem
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“The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
- George Bancroft,”
George Bancroft Quotes Source: History of the United States--Wm. Penn's Treaty with the Indians
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“Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided: they were swifter than
eagles, they were stronger than lions.”
Bible Quotes Source: II Samuel (ch. I, v. 23)
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“Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a
real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we
impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and
comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is
an everlasting pleasure to us.”
Bidpai (Pilpay) Quotes Source: Choice of Friends (chap. iv)
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“Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul,
Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.”
Robert Blair Quotes Source: The Grave (l. 87)
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“Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Saul (st. 7)
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“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Auld Lang Syne, Burns refers to these words as an old folk song
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“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: L' Amitie est l' Amour sans Ailes (st. 1)
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“In friendship I early was taught to believe;
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I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Lines addressed to the Rev. J.T. Becher (st. 7)
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“Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,
All benefits are there in common set.”
Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey) Quotes Source: Marian
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“How to win friends and influence people.”
Dale Carnegie Quotes Source: title of a book
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“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at first speech are old
friends.”
Mary Catherwood Quotes Source: Mackinac and Lake Stories--Marianson
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“Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what
constitutes true friendship.”
Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina) Quotes Source: The War with Catiline by Sallust
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“Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity
by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas
partiens communicansque leviores.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Amicitia (VI)
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“It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut
amicitia munus expletum sit.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Amicitia (XIX)
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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Youth and Age
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“What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have
despised!”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes Source: Earthly Paradise: An Autobiography
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“Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.”
Simon Dach Quotes Source: Annie of Tharaw (l. 7), (Longfellow's translation)
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“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship;
and pass the rosy wine.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Old Curiosity Ship (ch. VII)
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“What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a
feather?”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (ch. II)
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“For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47)
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“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
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“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”
James F. Byrnes Quotes |
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“Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
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