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In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich 
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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