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Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
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I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
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
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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