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Please enjoy these John Morley quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard 
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Dale Carnegie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
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