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Please enjoy these Naguib Mahfouz quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Related topics: Wisdom
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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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
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 never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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)
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
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 is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- 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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- 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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
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