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Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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)
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- 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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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