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Please enjoy these Kingsley Amis quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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