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3.Explain the following statements?

  1. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives (Euripidus).

  2. The only way to have a friend is to be one (Emerson).

  3. Friends show their love in times of trouble not in happiness (Euripidus).

  4. A good friend is my nearest relation (Thomas Fuller).

  5. Friends are born, not made (Henry Adams).

  6. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit (Aristotle).

  7. Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you (Albert Hubbart).

  8. The friendship that can come to an end never really began (Pulilius Syrus).

  9. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither thoughts nor measure words (George Eliot).

  10. Friends are like melons.

Shall I tell you why?

To find one good

You should a hundred try.

  1. Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never (Ch. Colton).

  2. Lend your money and lose your friend (Aesop).

  3. Little friends may prove great friends (Aesop).

  4. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud (R. Emerson).

  5. What is a friend? A single soul hidden in two bodies (Aristotle).

  6. I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. (O. Wilde).

  7. I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that non of us can stand other people having the same faults as overselves (O. Wilde).

  8. I like persons better than principles (O. Wilde).

  9. …to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him (O.Wilde).

4.In groups, brainstorm 6 main categories that friends must agree on (probably politics, religious beliefs, moral values) and place them in order of importance. Explain your choice.

5.Use the following proverbs in situations of your own.

1.The best friends may part. 2.Friendship is not to be bought at a fair. 3.Be slow in choosing friends, slower in changing them. 4.A friend is easier lost than found. 5.A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 6.A friend is never known till a man has need. 7.A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 8.Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him. 9.When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. 10.Short acquaintance brings repentance. 11.To those we love best, we say the least.

6.Discuss the following extract. What is your opinion on this point?

From And More

by Andy Rooney

"… The biblical commandment to "Love Thy Neighbor" was probably a poor translation of what must have originally been "Respect Thy Neighbor". Love can't be called up on order…. The only thing neighbors have in common to begin with is proximity, and unless something more develops, that isn't reason enough to be best friends. It sometimes happens naturally, but the chances are very small that your neighbor will be your choice as buddies… The best relationship with neighbors is one of friendly distance. You say hello, you small-talk if you see them in the yard, you discuss problems as they arise and you help each other in an emergency. It's the kind of arrangement where you see more of them in the summer than in the winter. The driveway or the hedge or the fence between you is not really a cold shoulder, but it is a clear boundary. We all like clearly defined boundaries for ourselves."