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Quotes About Friendship

He who has one-hundred friends has no friends to lose, he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
He who is deserted by friends and relatives will often find help and sympathy from strangers.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.
~ Ali Smith
Friends are always pretty, even when they're not.
~ Ali Smith
Livslånga vänskaper, sa han. Ibland får vi vänta en livstid på dem.
~ Ali Smith
Los amigos de toda la vida, dijo él. A veces nos pasamos toda la vida esperándolos.
~ Ali Smith
Anyone who gives wings to another's shoulders, and then along the way gradually spreads out a hidden net, extinguishes completely the ardent charity enkindled by love precisely where it most desires to burn.
~ Ali Smith
Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves – except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineering of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.
~ Ali Smith
Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends.
~ Ali Smith
The rain could not last forever; Nature must cease weeping some time. Just as girls, far away from their old homes and their old friends, must cease wetting their pillows with regretful tears after a time, and look forward to the new interests and new friends to which they have come.
~ Alice B. Emerson
And how do you get on?" she added, lowering her voice. "How about the Ogre?" "He has not ground me into bread-flour yet," responded Ruth, smiling.
~ Alice B. Emerson
Strange, she thought, how friends come when you need them most! Some of them come and stay a long time...others come in and go out, but always leave something of themselves.
~ Alice Dalgliesh
People who judge you all the time are not people you go to with real questions and problems. Starting
~ Alice Dreger
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends — you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.
~ Alice Duer Miller
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
~ Alice Duer Miller
The English are frosty When you're no kith or kin Of theirs, but how they alter When once they take you in! The kindest, the truest, The best friends ever known, It's hard to remember How they froze you to a bone.
~ Alice Duer Miller
When your heart would ache to hear Other men's tongues repeating Those same light phrases that jest and jeer At a friend now grown so dear--so dear. Strange to remember long ago When a friend was almost a foe.
~ Alice Duer Miller
When Johnnie went to France. Such a tame ending To a great romance-- Two lonely women With nothing much to do But get to know each other; She did and I did, too. Mornings at the Rectory, Learning how to roll Bandages, and always Saving light and coal. Oh, that house was bitter As winter closed in, In spite of heavy stockings And woolen next the skin. I was cold and wretched, And never unaware Of John more cold and wretched In a trench out there.
~ Alice Duer Miller
It was a red flag, Polly and Robert decided, not to have old friends.
~ Alice Elliott Dark