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Friendship Quotes


"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship."


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


"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."


"Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to."


"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."


"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."


"Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater."


"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."


"True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days."



"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."


"A friend is nothing but a known enemy."


"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."


"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."


"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."


"If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered."


"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."


"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."


"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"


"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."


"I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth."


"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one."


"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."


"My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness."


"I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends."


"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."


"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."


"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."


"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."


"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."


"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."


"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."


"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?"


"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."


"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."


"Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends-maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be."


"I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart."


"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."


"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."


"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."



"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."


"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."


"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."


"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
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