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Quotes About Friendship

Oak was just thinking that whatever he himself might have suffered from Bathsheba's marriage, here was a man who had suffered more, when Boldwood spoke in a changed voice—that of one who yearned to make a confidence and relieve his heart by an outpouring.
~ Thomas Hardy
Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!
~ Thomas Hardy
kar??l?k? duygular?ndan çok az konuÅŸuyorlard?, böylesi s?nanm?? dostluklarda güzel cümleler ve s?cak ilgi gereksizdi muhtemelen….
~ Thomas Hardy
Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise.
~ Thomas Hardy
But these shaggy recesses were at all seasons a familiar surrounding to Olly and Mrs. Yeobright; and the addition of darkness lends no frightfulness to the face of a friend.
~ Thomas Hardy
Ay, I'm a poor man—a poor gentleman, in fact: those I would be friends with, won't be friends with me; those who are willing to be friends with me, I am above being friends with.
~ Thomas Hardy
A long time ago John Brigham had asked her something and she said no. And then he asked her if they could be friends, and meant it, and she said yes, and meant it.
~ Thomas Harris
You've met Molly?" "Yeah. She's great, I like her. She'd be glad to see me in hell with my back broken, of course.
~ Thomas Harris
You're his friend, Jack. Why can't you leave him alone? 'Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Because he doesn't think like other people. Somehow he never got in a rut.
~ Thomas Harris
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
~ Thomas Jefferson
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why
~ Thomas Jefferson
I find friendship to be like wine. Raw when new. Ripened with age.
~ Thomas Jefferson
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.
~ Thomas Keneally
Vuole credere lei che sarei orgoglioso e felice di possedere un amico tra gli uomini? Ma fino ad ora ho avuto amici solo tra demoni, farfarelli, mostri oscuri e fantasmi afasiaci, vale a dire: tra letterati.
~ Thomas Mann
Even if you do have designs on my cash, and send me down to Pluto with a blow of your oar from behind, you will have rowed me well.
~ Thomas Mann
Her friends were the hollow-chested man, the whimsical girl with the fuzzy hair, the silent Dr. Blumenkohl, and the youth with the drooping shoulders...
~ Thomas Mann
Para todo amigo de la ilustración, la palabra «pueblo» y su concepto mismo conservan algo de primitivo que causa aprensión y es porque se sabe que basta tratar de pueblo a la multitud para predisponerla a actos de regresiva maldad. Ante nuestros ojos, o lejos de ellos, ¿cuántas cosas no han ocurrido en nombre del pueblo que no hubiesen podido ocurrir en nombre de dios, de la humanidad o del derecho?
~ Thomas Mann
They pledged each other in their spiced beer, a very good drink, with cloves, which I have never tasted but let glide with pleasure down their gullets. Very oft is the telling only a substitute for enjoyment which we, or the heavens, deny ourselves.
~ Thomas Mann
Where self-interest is the bond, The friendship is dissolved When calamity comes. Where Tao is the bond, Friendship is made perfect By calamity.
~ Thomas Merton