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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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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
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 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
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
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 always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- 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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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 born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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 thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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 true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
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
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
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