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Please enjoy these Carmen Sylva quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
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 must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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
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
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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 the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
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 is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
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