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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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 magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
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