If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, “How’s the little lady
today!” you will probably cringe. But if he’s an American, he’s only
being friendly. —Margaret Atwood, interview, Conversations, Earl G.
Ingersoll, ed., 1990
today!” you will probably cringe. But if he’s an American, he’s only
being friendly. —Margaret Atwood, interview, Conversations, Earl G.
Ingersoll, ed., 1990
Friendship is constant in all other things, / Save in the office and affairs
of love. —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, 1600
of love. —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, 1600
I don’t have trouble with men. There are plenty of neurotic contem-poraries of mine still around. —Selma Diamond,Funny Women,
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Four be the things I am wiser to know: /
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
—Dorothy Parker, “Inventory,” Enough Rope,1927
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
—Dorothy Parker, “Inventory,” Enough Rope,1927
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that
binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942
binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942
Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised
places in their hearts made them brothers. —Gloria Naylor, Linden
Hills, 1985
places in their hearts made them brothers. —Gloria Naylor, Linden
Hills, 1985
A friend is a second self. —Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, c. 325 b.c.e
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! —George Eliot, The
Spanish Gypsy,1868
Spanish Gypsy,1868
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly
pos-sible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community
of
thought, a rivalry of aim. —Henry Adams, The Education of Henry
Adams, 1907
thought, a rivalry of aim. —Henry Adams, The Education of Henry
Adams, 1907
—Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
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