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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard 
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- 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.
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
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 often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
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, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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