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Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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 often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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
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 certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
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
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
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 best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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