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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.

People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

Surround yourself with love, not friends.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

That girl can barely spell her name.

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up.

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.