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Friendship Quotes


"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."


"If you want friends you must be friendly. Always complaining and posting negative comments is not going to bring you friends. No one likes to get puked on."



"I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it can be tender and involve a desire to hug or whatever. But it certainly doesn't mean you want to take off your clothes with that person. But certain friendships can be erotic. Oh, I think friendship is very erotic, but it isn't necessarily sexual. I think all my relationships are erotic: I can't imagine being fond of somebody I don't want to touch or hug, so therefore there's always an erotic aspect to some extent."


"Sometimes you just have to hold each other's hands and walk through it all."


"As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.People always suddenly miss you more once they see how much happier you are without them.Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass."


"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."


"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"


"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."


"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."


"I want we to be friends, not to follow you.I want you to stop the lies, it's not awesome."


"Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch."


"When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them."


"You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime."


"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."


"The value of friendship is based on a solid underline friendship."


"Who do I love? I love people who are easy to talk to."


"A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear."


"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."


"Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully."


"Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends."


"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."


"On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth."


"But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak."


"As much as I hated to admit it, I kind of looked forward to seeing him. It made no sense, but something about his infuriating nature made me forget about my other worries. Weirdly, I felt like I could relax around him."



"Friendship that flames goes out in a flash."


"Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep."


"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."


"Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together."


"Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I'm only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision."


"When your lover is your best friend, then you know you're one of the few and the fortunate."


"A true friend is a reflection of yourself."


"You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with."


"Friendship is never measured it words, it's measured in memories."


"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."


"As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything."


"So friendship is all about ignoring?...Fake smiles?...Lies...Promises which get broken?..."


"Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances."


"Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to."


"Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?"


"There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down" they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are!"



"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."


"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."


"With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend."


"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."


"What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."


"Love is always more than friendship."


"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."



"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."



"What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear."
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