Quotations About / On: FRIEND

  • 41.
    Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Emerson in His Journals, March 1847, ed. Joel Porte (1982).)
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  • 42.
    With close-lipp'd Patience for our only friend,
    Sad Patience, too near neighbour to Despair.
    (Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), British poet, critic. The Scholar-Gipsy, st. 20 (1853).)
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  • 43.
    A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
    (Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer. Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, bk. 3, ch. 1, trans. by P. Motteux (1605).)
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  • 44.
    Elysium is as far as to
    The very nearest room,
    If in that room a friend await
    Felicity of doom.
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Elysium is as far as to (l. 1-4). CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  • 45.
    The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
    The answer is blowin' in the wind.
    (Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. Blowin' in the Wind, chorus, on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1962). On the sleeve notes to the record, Dylan wrote: "The first way to answer the questions in the song is by asking them. But lots of people have to first find the wind.")
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  • 46.
    He is thy gracious friend
    And (O my Soul awake!)
    Did in pure love descend
    To die here for thy sake,
    (Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Peace (l. 9-12). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 47.
    We're after the same rainbow's end waitin' round the bend, my Huckleberry friend.
    (Johnny Mercer (1909-1976), U.S. songwriter. "Moon River," Breakfast at Tiffany's, Famous Music Corp. (1961). Music composed by Henry Mancini (1924-1994).)
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  • 48.
    He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
    (Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. The Czarevitch, in Vera, or the Nihilists, act 2. Referring to Prince Paul.)
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  • 49.
    "You the one, I the few"
    said John Adams
    speaking of fears in the abstract
    to his volatile friend Mr. Jefferson,
    (Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Canto LXXXI (l. 49-52). . . The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1970, repr. 1991) New Directions.)
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  • 50.
    I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
    (William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "On the Pleasure of Hating," The Plain Speaker (1826).)
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