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Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
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Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
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