Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Quotes on friendship by Fran Drescher !
Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer, author, singer, talk show host, political lobbyist and health activist. Drescher is best known for playing Fran Fine on the television series The Nanny, for which she was nominated for two Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards, and is most recognizable for her strong Queens, NY accent.
Some quotes by Fran Drescher
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
" Fran Drescher "
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
" Fran Drescher "
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
" Fran Drescher "
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
"Fran Drescher"
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George Eliot Quotes
Mary Anne (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works were taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
" George Eliot "
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
" George Eliot "
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
" George Eliot "
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
" George Eliot "
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.Colton was educated at Eton and King's College, graduating with a B.A. in 1801 and an M.A. in 1804. In 1801 he was presented by the college with the perpetual curacy of Tiverton's Prior's Quarter in Devon,
Some quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
"Charles Caleb Colton"
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
"Charles Caleb Colton"
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Osho
Osho (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, called Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and taking the name Osho in 1989, was an Indian mystic and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following. His syncretic teachings emphasise the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, creativity and humour – qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation. His teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.Osho was a professor of philosophy and travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker.
Some friendship quotes by Osho
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Friendship is possible between equal human beings, totally free from all bondage of society, culture, civilization, only living true to their authentic nature.
"Osho"
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Only individuals can relate; personalities cannot. Personalities are like shadows. They cannot meet, they cannot merge, because they don’t exist. Personalities are fake. That’s why in the whole world people are talking of love, but there is no love. They are talking of friendship, but there is no friendship — even talking of trust. But for that a tremendously powerful individuality is needed. Personalities cannot trust; they are always afraid — afraid that their reality may be exposed, may be known.
"Osho"
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Friendship can turn into enmity, and enmity can become friendship. You all know — happiness can turn into sadness, and sadness can change into happiness. Although they are polar opposites, they are almost like twins, very close. Just a slight change in circumstances and one disappears …the other was just behind it. So remember the transcendent — existence belongs to the transcendental. Don’t divide it; otherwise you will be continuously tortured by the duality.
"Osho"
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In this ambitious world, friendship cannot bloom, love is almost impossible, compassion cannot exist. We have created such an ugly mess, and the root is that we think that there is something to achieve.
"Osho"
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A man who seeks friendship, love, companionship, out of loneliness is not going to find it. In fact, with whomsoever he will associate he will feel cheated and he will make the other feel cheated. He will feel tired and bored, and he will make the other feel tired and bored. He will feel sucked and he will make the other feel sucked, because both will be sucking on each other’s energies. And they don’t have much in the first place. Their streams are running very thin; they are like summer streams in a desertland. You cannot take any water out of them. But if you seek friendship and love and companionship out of aloneness, you are a flooded river, a river in the rains. You can share as much as you want. And the more you share, the more you will have.
"Osho"
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The proverb is: A friend in need is a friend indeed. But deep down that is greed! That is not friendship, that is not love. You want to use the other as a means, and no man is a means, every man is an end unto himself. Why are you so worried about who is a real friend?
"Osho"
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The real question has to be: Am I friendly to people? Do you know what friendship is? It is the highest form of love. In love, some lust is bound to be there; in friendship, all lust disappears. In friendship nothing gross remains; it becomes absolutely subtle.
"Osho"
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Friendship is absolutely human. It has something for which there is no inbuilt mechanism in your biology; it is nonbiological. Hence one rises in friendship, one does not fall in friendship. It has a spiritual dimension.
"Osho"
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Friendship becomes a relationship, fixed; friendliness is more flowing, more fluid. Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. If you are standing by the side of a tree you are friendly to the tree, or if you are sitting on the rock, you are friendly to the rock. To human beings, to animals, to birds, you are simply friendly. It is not something static; it is a flow, changing moment to moment.
"Osho"
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Friendship is so valuable that whatsoever the consequence, remain friends even with your wife, even with your husband, and allow absolute and total freedom to each other.
"Osho"
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Create more friends, and as your friendship goes deeper into different dimensions, you will find yourself becoming richer and richer; your own heights will start reaching Everest, your own depths will start reaching the Pacific.
"Osho"
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Everybody is your enemy! Even those who are your friends are your enemies, because they are also fighting for the first place as you are fighting. How can you be friendly? With the ego there is no possibility of friendship. Then friendship is just a mask. The real nature of life is that of the jungle: the big fish goes on eating the small fish. Even if you pretend to be friendly, that is just show, strategy, diplomacy. Nobody can be a friend here unless the ego disappears. Once the ego disappears the whole life has a quality of friendship, of love. Then you are friendly, simply friendly — and to everybody, because there is no problem. You are not trying to be the first, so you are not more a competitor. this is real dropping out.
"Osho"
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon). He studied at a Jesuit school in 1621 and 1623 and theology in Zaragoza. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635.
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Some friendship quotes by Baltasar Gracian
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
"Baltasar Gracian"
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
"Baltasar Gracian"
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
"Baltasar Gracian"
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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC ) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher.
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Some friendship quotes by Cicero
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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
"Cicero"
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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
"Cicero"
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self.
" Cicero "
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"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
" Cicero "
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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
" Cicero "
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
" Cicero "
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
" Cicero "
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"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
" Cicero "
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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
" Cicero "
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
" Cicero "
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist.
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Some friendship quotes by Dorothy Parker
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Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
"Dorothy Parker"
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The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
"Dorothy Parker"
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Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller (1874 - 1942) was an American poet and novelist whose long poem The White Cliffs was immensely successful throughout the English-speaking world. First published in September 1940, it sold over a million copies, an unheard of number for a book of verse. Broadcast, filmed and talked about, it had a significant influence in bringing the USA into the war. But it was also a very fine narrative poem in the great tradition of English poetry. Its authoress, who died in 1942, had already made a name for herself as a popular novelist and playwright. But poetry was always her greatest love.
Some friendship quotes by Alice Duer Miller
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
"Alice Duer Miller"
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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"
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
"Alice Duer Miller"
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
"Alice Duer Miller"
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
"Alice Duer Miller"
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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Some friendship quotes by Virginia Woolf
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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
" Virginia Woolf "
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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