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Please enjoy these Quotes about Elegance and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich 
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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 new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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