Quotes by Authors - Page 173

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
Julia Seton
When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing.
Anonymous
Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh the comfort the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words but pouring them all out just as they are chaff and grain together certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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
Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
Betty White
I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.
Francine du Plessix Gray
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus
Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Julius Charles Hare
I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Henry David Thoreau
So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.
Rita Mae Brown
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Anonymous
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid because most people really like this contact that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Liv Ullmann
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing
Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
Susan Griffin
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West
There are worse words than cuss words there are words that hurt.
Tillie Olsen
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.
Edgar Watson Howe
Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
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.
Samuel Butler
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love.
Mark Rutherford
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Thomas Fuller
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
Ned Rorem
Love your friend with his fault.
Anonymous
Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.
Edgar Watson Howe
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Anonymous
You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
A hedge between keeps friendships green.
Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
John Muir
Friendship increases in visiting friends but not in visiting them too often.
Anonymous
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Anonymous
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
William Feather
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
Arnold Glasow
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readiness to aid to help to stick to fight for if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
B.C. Forbes
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them that we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
Anonymous
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes
Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
Don Marquis
There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of getting out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence secretiveness or sudden outburst.
Eleanor H. Porter
Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.
Robert J. Havighurst