"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright

Friendship, Friend, Abuse, Praise, Vanity

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"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"

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"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Friendship, Love, Man, Woman

"Unfailing friends are essential, when 'presence' and 'absence' are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend)."

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Friendship, Presence, Self-Care, Support

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Friendship, Marriage, Friends, Man, Will

"Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Friendship, Support, Help, Companionship

"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Friendship, Longing, Joy, Isolation

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Friendship, Friend, May

"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Friendship, Friend, Being, Martyrs

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Friendship, Truth, Nothing, Passion

"Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Friendship, Happiness, Inspirational, Truth, Power

"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Friendship, Happiness, Love, Inspirational, Life

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"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."

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"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked."

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"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."

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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

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"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."

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"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

"Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up."

"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."

"Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face."

"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."

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"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."

"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature."

"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer."

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked."

"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."

"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."

"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."

"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."