{"topic":"friendship","quotes":[{"quote":"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.","author":"Ali ibn-Abi-Talib"},{"quote":"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.","author":"Aristotle"},{"quote":"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.","author":"Aristotle"},{"quote":"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.","author":"Arthur Brisbane"},{"quote":"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.","author":"Carl Jung"},{"quote":"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.","author":"Cicero"},{"quote":"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.","author":"Cicero"},{"quote":"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.","author":"Colette"},{"quote":"Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.","author":"Colleen Wainwright"},{"quote":"Have no friends not equal to yourself.","author":"Confucius"},{"quote":"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.","author":"Czech Proverb"},{"quote":"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.","author":"Dale Carnegie"},{"quote":"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.","author":"Dame Edna Everage"},{"quote":"Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.","author":"David Shore"},{"quote":"You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.","author":"Elbert Hubbard"},{"quote":"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.","author":"Franklin P. Jones"},{"quote":"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.","author":"George Washington"},{"quote":"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.","author":"Georgia O'Keeffe"},{"quote":"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.","author":"Hugh Elliott"},{"quote":"All people want is someone to listen.","author":"Jane Austen"},{"quote":"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.","author":"Japanese Proverb"},{"quote":"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.","author":"Jay Leno"},{"quote":"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.","author":"John Churton Collins"},{"quote":"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.","author":"Joseph Addison"},{"quote":"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.","author":"Lawana Blackwell"},{"quote":"There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold"},{"quote":"You don�t get to pick your own nickname. They�ve gotta give you one. It�s like we�re all tryin� to make pets out of each other and we�re not comfortable unless we get to name �em.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold"},{"quote":"It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience."},{"quote":"A good friend of my son's is a son to me."},{"quote":"Adversity does teach who your real friends are."}]}