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Friendship is but another name for an alliance
with the follies and the misfortunes of others.
Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson
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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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 true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
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 a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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 one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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