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Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
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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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- 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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
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