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

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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

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

 

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

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 difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

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

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

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

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

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

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

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo

Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield

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

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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