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Friendship Quotes - Page 65

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

"Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Joseph Roux, pt. 4, no. 28, 1886.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

"'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

"Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter".

Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.49, Baen Books

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”