Ah, there's enormous patience wanted with the way of the world. But it is the easier for a man to wait patiently when he has friends who love him, and ask for nothing better than to help him through, so far as it lies in their power.

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

I suppose that gives me a warrant to speak about the matter now. It is understood between us, is it not?--that we are on a footing of open friendship: I have listened to you, and you will be willing to listen to me. I may take my turn in talking a little about myself?

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

To be candid meant to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

but she found to her surprise that an old friend is not always the person whom it is easiest to make a confidant of: there was the barrier of remembered communication under other circumstances--

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before-- a fountain of friendship towards men--a man can make a friend of her.

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

Love is just friendship set to music.

- E. Joseph Crossman

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

- Jim Rohn

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

- Dame Edna Everage

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

- Baltasar Gracian

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

- Franklin P. Jones

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

- Elbert Hubbard

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

- Anonymous

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

- Anonymous

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James Byrnes

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps, an acquaintance merely advises.

-Bob Edwards

The only meaningful contact is one that involves a genuine, giving personal interaction. You may want another person to help you in business, but you must also be willing to help him and to spend time getting to know his interests and needs... It has to be real and heartfelt, or it's best not to try to establish the relationship at all.

- Art Linkletter

It is easier to win friends by being genuinely interested in others than to have others to be interested in you.

- Anonymous

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend.

- Anonymous

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

- Anonymous

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

- Anita Brookner

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

- Jeff Daly

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

- Jim Rohn

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.

- Jim Rohn

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

- Anthony Robbins

There is love of course. And then there is life, its enemy.

- Jean Anouilh

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

-Eddie Cantor

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