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Please enjoy these James Fenimore Cooper quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
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
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
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
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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
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 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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
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