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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
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What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- 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
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 often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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 must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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.
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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