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Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

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

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In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

 

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

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

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

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

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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 certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

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

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

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.

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

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

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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 is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

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 always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts


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