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A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
AGAmanda Grier
When a man’s partner is killed he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it.
Dashiell Hammett1894–1961The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 20In context
- Justice
- Responsibility
It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), The Custom-HouseIn context
- Character
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIn context
- Enemies
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 66
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), Chapter 1 (p. 7)
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.
Homer900–800 BCThe Iliad (750 BC), Iliad, Book XXII, 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler)In context
- Enemies
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe1853–1937
A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points.
E. W. Howe1853–1937Country Town Sayings (1911), p. 81.
Never explain⁠—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Motto Book (1907)
- Enemies
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112
My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
It is nothing against the validity of a friendship that the parties to it have not a mutual resemblance. There must be a basis of agreement, but the structure reared upon it may contain a thousand disparities.
Henry James1843–1916Confidence (1879), Ch. II