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A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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- 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
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
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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)
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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.
- Dale Carnegie
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
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