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Good friends help you to find important things when
you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your
courage.
- Doe Zantamata 10
“
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true
friendship.
-Albert Einstein
“
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
-Ed Cunningham
“
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
-Seneca
“
Silence make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying, but the never needing to say that
counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
“
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can
afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
you discover that someone else believes in you and is
willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Remember: No one’s more important than people!
In other words, friendship is the most important
thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–
and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
-Julia Child
“
What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with
whom you dare to be yourself.
-Frank Crane
“
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel.
Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how
cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when
you got a good friend.
-Unknown
“
No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes
to heal, you will never get through it without your
friends.
-Unknown
“
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring
of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of
similarities.
-Unknown
“
You can make more friends in two months by
becoming really interested in other people, than you
can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
-Bernard Meltzer
“
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give
it, we will receive it.
-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.
“
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires a very fine nature to
sympathize with a friend’s success.
-Oscar Wilde
“
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes
they know us better than we know ourselves. With
gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support
us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their
presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
-Vincent van Gogh
“
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art
of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go
and allow people to hurl themselves into their own
destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces
when it’s all over.
-Gloria Naylor
“
We can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.
-Dalai Lama
“
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when
two or more of the companions discover that they
have in common some insight or interest or even
taste which the others do not share and which, till
that moment, each believed to be his own unique
treasure (or burden).
-C.S. Lewis
“
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than
alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
“
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-John Leonard
“
Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you
feel all alone, you aren’t.
-
“
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures
of his worth.
-Charles Darwin
“
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s
why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough
“
The influence of each human being on others in this
life is a kind of immortality.
-John Quincy Adams
“
People who bore one another should meet seldom;
people who interest one another, often.
-C.S. Lewis
“
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
-Walter Winchell
“
If you have one true friend, you have more than your
share.
-Thomas Fuller
“
God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay.
That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see
what shapes we can make of each other.
-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me
yours.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
“
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
“
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour
of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend
who cares.
-Henri Nouwen
“
You have been my friends. That in itself is a
tremendous thing.
-E.B. White
“
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.
-Henry Ford
“
Friends are the most important ingredient in the
recipe called life.
-
“
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and
say my glory was I had such friends.
-William Butler Yeats
“
My friends are my estate.
-Emily Dickinson
“
A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down.
-Arnold H. Glasow
“
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that
much better.
-Plutarch
“
A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future, and accepts you just the way
you are. 4
-
“
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It
has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
which give value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis
“
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does
not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
My friends have made the story of my life. In a
thousand ways they have turned my limitations into
beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene
and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.
-Helen Keller
“
The best time to make friends is before you need
them.
-Ethel Barrymore
“
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a
secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
“
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love
his enemies but also to hate his friends.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Friends are people who know you really well and like
you anyway.
-Greg Tamblyn
“
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in
the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone
“
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual
sympathy between them, each supplying what the
other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always
using friendly and sincere words.
-Buddha
“
Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And
it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the
time, but I couldn’t have, could I?
-Wizard of Oz
“
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
-French Proverb
“
A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
“
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom
to be yourself.
-Jim Morrisson
“
Never contract friendship with a man that is not
better than thyself.
-Confucius
“
A true friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17
“
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
-Khalil Gibran
“
Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your
world.
-William James
“
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what
we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak
and gives us strength to let us free.
-Unknown
“
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering,
makes someone a friend.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
-Irish Proverb
“
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always
because he is not ourself, and has something in him
which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not
so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
-Lucy Larcom
“
More Winnie The Pooh Quotes →
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is
never anything but sharing.
-Elie Wiesel
“
True friendship is seen through the heart not
through the eyes.
-Unknown
“
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-Walt Whitman
“
The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
“
It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be
strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many
friends.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Friendship involves many things but, above all the
power of going outside oneself and appreciating what
is noble and loving in another.
-Thomas Huxley
“
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have
to get us through this life–and they are the only
things from this world that we could hope to see in
the next.
-Dean Koontz
“
Between men and woman there is no friendship
possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but
no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
“
To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that
it holds on to its volume, memories have to be
watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls
for regular contact with the witnesses of the past,
that is to say, with friends.
-Milan Kundera, Identity
“
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it
loses something.
-Dean Smith
“
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day so I never have to live without
you.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in
happiness.
-Euripides
“
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you
really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have
too many friends because then you’re just not
really friends.
-Truman Capote
“
No road is long with good company.
-Turkish Proverb
“
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But
if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven’t learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
“
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are
hard to find.
-William Shakespeare
“
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
-Khalil Gibran
“
The language of friendship is not words but
meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
Friendship with oneself is all important because
without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in
the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“
The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your
friends.
-Unknown
“
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting
for others to come to you. You have to go to them
sometimes.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just
got to find the ones worth suffering for.
-Bob Marley
“
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
-Latin Proverb
“
True friendship is never serene.
-Marquise de Sevigne
“
There is nothing I would not do for those who are
really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by
halves, it is not my nature.
-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“
To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life
worthwhile.
-UnknownBROKEN FUNNY CUTE
Good friends help you to find important things when
you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your
courage.
- Doe Zantamata 10
“
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true
friendship.
-Albert Einstein
“
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
-Ed Cunningham
“
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
-Seneca
“
Silence make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying, but the never needing to say that
counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
“
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can
afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
you discover that someone else believes in you and is
willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Remember: No one’s more important than people!
In other words, friendship is the most important
thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–
and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
-Julia Child
“
What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with
whom you dare to be yourself.
-Frank Crane
“
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel.
Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how
cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when
you got a good friend.
-Unknown
“
No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes
to heal, you will never get through it without your
friends.
-Unknown
“
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring
of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of
similarities.
-Unknown
“
You can make more friends in two months by
becoming really interested in other people, than you
can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
-Bernard Meltzer
“
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give
it, we will receive it.
-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.
“
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires a very fine nature to
sympathize with a friend’s success.
-Oscar Wilde
“
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes
they know us better than we know ourselves. With
gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support
us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their
presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
-Vincent van Gogh
“
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art
of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go
and allow people to hurl themselves into their own
destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces
when it’s all over.
-Gloria Naylor
“
We can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.
-Dalai Lama
“
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when
two or more of the companions discover that they
have in common some insight or interest or even
taste which the others do not share and which, till
that moment, each believed to be his own unique
treasure (or burden).
-C.S. Lewis
“
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than
alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
“
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-John Leonard
“
Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you
feel all alone, you aren’t.
-
“
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures
of his worth.
-Charles Darwin
“
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s
why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough
“
The influence of each human being on others in this
life is a kind of immortality.
-John Quincy Adams
“
People who bore one another should meet seldom;
people who interest one another, often.
-C.S. Lewis
“
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
-Walter Winchell
“
If you have one true friend, you have more than your
share.
-Thomas Fuller
“
God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay.
That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see
what shapes we can make of each other.
-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me
yours.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
“
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
“
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour
of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend
who cares.
-Henri Nouwen
“
You have been my friends. That in itself is a
tremendous thing.
-E.B. White
“
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.
-Henry Ford
“
Friends are the most important ingredient in the
recipe called life.
-
“
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and
say my glory was I had such friends.
-William Butler Yeats
“
My friends are my estate.
-Emily Dickinson
“
A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down.
-Arnold H. Glasow
“
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that
much better.
-Plutarch
“
A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future, and accepts you just the way
you are. 4
-
“
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It
has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
which give value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis
“
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does
not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
My friends have made the story of my life. In a
thousand ways they have turned my limitations into
beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene
and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.
-Helen Keller
“
The best time to make friends is before you need
them.
-Ethel Barrymore
“
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a
secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
“
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love
his enemies but also to hate his friends.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Friends are people who know you really well and like
you anyway.
-Greg Tamblyn
“
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in
the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone
“
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual
sympathy between them, each supplying what the
other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always
using friendly and sincere words.
-Buddha
“
Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And
it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the
time, but I couldn’t have, could I?
-Wizard of Oz
“
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
-French Proverb
“
A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
“
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom
to be yourself.
-Jim Morrisson
“
Never contract friendship with a man that is not
better than thyself.
-Confucius
“
A true friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17
“
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
-Khalil Gibran
“
Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your
world.
-William James
“
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what
we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak
and gives us strength to let us free.
-Unknown
“
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering,
makes someone a friend.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
-Irish Proverb
“
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always
because he is not ourself, and has something in him
which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not
so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
-Lucy Larcom
“
More Winnie The Pooh Quotes →
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is
never anything but sharing.
-Elie Wiesel
“
True friendship is seen through the heart not
through the eyes.
-Unknown
“
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-Walt Whitman
“
The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
“
It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be
strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many
friends.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Friendship involves many things but, above all the
power of going outside oneself and appreciating what
is noble and loving in another.
-Thomas Huxley
“
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have
to get us through this life–and they are the only
things from this world that we could hope to see in
the next.
-Dean Koontz
“
Between men and woman there is no friendship
possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but
no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
“
To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that
it holds on to its volume, memories have to be
watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls
for regular contact with the witnesses of the past,
that is to say, with friends.
-Milan Kundera, Identity
“
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it
loses something.
-Dean Smith
“
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day so I never have to live without
you.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in
happiness.
-Euripides
“
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you
really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have
too many friends because then you’re just not
really friends.
-Truman Capote
“
No road is long with good company.
-Turkish Proverb
“
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But
if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven’t learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
“
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are
hard to find.
-William Shakespeare
“
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
-Khalil Gibran
“
The language of friendship is not words but
meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
Friendship with oneself is all important because
without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in
the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“
The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your
friends.
-Unknown
“
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting
for others to come to you. You have to go to them
sometimes.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just
got to find the ones worth suffering for.
-Bob Marley
“
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
-Latin Proverb
“
True friendship is never serene.
-Marquise de Sevigne
“
There is nothing I would not do for those who are
really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by
halves, it is not my nature.
-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“
To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life
worthwhile.
-UnknownBROKEN FUNNY CUTE
Good friends help you to find important things when
you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your
courage.
- Doe Zantamata 10
“
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true
friendship.
-Albert Einstein
“
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
-Ed Cunningham
“
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
-Seneca
“
Silence make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying, but the never needing to say that
counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
“
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can
afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
you discover that someone else believes in you and is
willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Remember: No one’s more important than people!
In other words, friendship is the most important
thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–
and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
-Julia Child
“
What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with
whom you dare to be yourself.
-Frank Crane
“
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel.
Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how
cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when
you got a good friend.
-Unknown
“
No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes
to heal, you will never get through it without your
friends.
-Unknown
“
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring
of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of
similarities.
-Unknown
“
You can make more friends in two months by
becoming really interested in other people, than you
can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
-Bernard Meltzer
“
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give
it, we will receive it.
-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.
“
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires a very fine nature to
sympathize with a friend’s success.
-Oscar Wilde
“
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes
they know us better than we know ourselves. With
gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support
us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their
presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
-Vincent van Gogh
“
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art
of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go
and allow people to hurl themselves into their own
destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces
when it’s all over.
-Gloria Naylor
“
We can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.
-Dalai Lama
“
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when
two or more of the companions discover that they
have in common some insight or interest or even
taste which the others do not share and which, till
that moment, each believed to be his own unique
treasure (or burden).
-C.S. Lewis
“
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than
alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
“
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-John Leonard
“
Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you
feel all alone, you aren’t.
-
“
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures
of his worth.
-Charles Darwin
“
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s
why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough
“
The influence of each human being on others in this
life is a kind of immortality.
-John Quincy Adams
“
People who bore one another should meet seldom;
people who interest one another, often.
-C.S. Lewis
“
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
-Walter Winchell
“
If you have one true friend, you have more than your
share.
-Thomas Fuller
“
God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay.
That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see
what shapes we can make of each other.
-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me
yours.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
“
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
“
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour
of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend
who cares.
-Henri Nouwen
“
You have been my friends. That in itself is a
tremendous thing.
-E.B. White
“
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.
-Henry Ford
“
Friends are the most important ingredient in the
recipe called life.
-
“
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and
say my glory was I had such friends.
-William Butler Yeats
“
My friends are my estate.
-Emily Dickinson
“
A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down.
-Arnold H. Glasow
“
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that
much better.
-Plutarch
“
A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future, and accepts you just the way
you are. 4
-
“
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It
has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
which give value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis
“
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does
not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
My friends have made the story of my life. In a
thousand ways they have turned my limitations into
beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene
and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.
-Helen Keller
“
The best time to make friends is before you need
them.
-Ethel Barrymore
“
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a
secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
“
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love
his enemies but also to hate his friends.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Friends are people who know you really well and like
you anyway.
-Greg Tamblyn
“
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in
the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone
“
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual
sympathy between them, each supplying what the
other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always
using friendly and sincere words.
-Buddha
“
Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And
it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the
time, but I couldn’t have, could I?
-Wizard of Oz
“
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
-French Proverb
“
A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
“
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom
to be yourself.
-Jim Morrisson
“
Never contract friendship with a man that is not
better than thyself.
-Confucius
“
A true friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17
“
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
-Khalil Gibran
“
Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your
world.
-William James
“
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what
we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak
and gives us strength to let us free.
-Unknown
“
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering,
makes someone a friend.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
-Irish Proverb
“
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always
because he is not ourself, and has something in him
which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not
so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
-Lucy Larcom
“
More Winnie The Pooh Quotes →
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is
never anything but sharing.
-Elie Wiesel
“
True friendship is seen through the heart not
through the eyes.
-Unknown
“
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-Walt Whitman
“
The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
“
It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be
strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many
friends.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Friendship involves many things but, above all the
power of going outside oneself and appreciating what
is noble and loving in another.
-Thomas Huxley
“
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have
to get us through this life–and they are the only
things from this world that we could hope to see in
the next.
-Dean Koontz
“
Between men and woman there is no friendship
possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but
no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
“
To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that
it holds on to its volume, memories have to be
watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls
for regular contact with the witnesses of the past,
that is to say, with friends.
-Milan Kundera, Identity
“
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it
loses something.
-Dean Smith
“
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day so I never have to live without
you.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in
happiness.
-Euripides
“
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you
really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have
too many friends because then you’re just not
really friends.
-Truman Capote
“
No road is long with good company.
-Turkish Proverb
“
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But
if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven’t learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
“
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are
hard to find.
-William Shakespeare
“
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
-Khalil Gibran
“
The language of friendship is not words but
meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
Friendship with oneself is all important because
without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in
the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“
The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your
friends.
-Unknown
“
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting
for others to come to you. You have to go to them
sometimes.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just
got to find the ones worth suffering for.
-Bob Marley
“
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
-Latin Proverb
“
True friendship is never serene.
-Marquise de Sevigne
“
There is nothing I would not do for those who are
really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by
halves, it is not my nature.
-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“
To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life
worthwhile.
-UnknownBROKEN FUNNY CUTE
Good friends help you to find important things when
you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your
courage.
- Doe Zantamata 10
“
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true
friendship.
-Albert Einstein
“
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
-Ed Cunningham
“
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
-Seneca
“
Silence make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying, but the never needing to say that
counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
“
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can
afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
you discover that someone else believes in you and is
willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Remember: No one’s more important than people!
In other words, friendship is the most important
thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–
and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
-Julia Child
“
What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with
whom you dare to be yourself.
-Frank Crane
“
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel.
Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how
cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when
you got a good friend.
-Unknown
“
No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes
to heal, you will never get through it without your
friends.
-Unknown
“
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring
of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of
similarities.
-Unknown
“
You can make more friends in two months by
becoming really interested in other people, than you
can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
-Bernard Meltzer
“
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give
it, we will receive it.
-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.
“
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires a very fine nature to
sympathize with a friend’s success.
-Oscar Wilde
“
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes
they know us better than we know ourselves. With
gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support
us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their
presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
-Vincent van Gogh
“
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art
of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go
and allow people to hurl themselves into their own
destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces
when it’s all over.
-Gloria Naylor
“
We can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.
-Dalai Lama
“
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when
two or more of the companions discover that they
have in common some insight or interest or even
taste which the others do not share and which, till
that moment, each believed to be his own unique
treasure (or burden).
-C.S. Lewis
“
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than
alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
“
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-John Leonard
“
Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you
feel all alone, you aren’t.
-
“
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures
of his worth.
-Charles Darwin
“
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s
why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough
“
The influence of each human being on others in this
life is a kind of immortality.
-John Quincy Adams
“
People who bore one another should meet seldom;
people who interest one another, often.
-C.S. Lewis
“
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
-Walter Winchell
“
If you have one true friend, you have more than your
share.
-Thomas Fuller
“
God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay.
That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see
what shapes we can make of each other.
-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me
yours.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
“
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
“
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour
of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend
who cares.
-Henri Nouwen
“
You have been my friends. That in itself is a
tremendous thing.
-E.B. White
“
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.
-Henry Ford
“
Friends are the most important ingredient in the
recipe called life.
-
“
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and
say my glory was I had such friends.
-William Butler Yeats
“
My friends are my estate.
-Emily Dickinson
“
A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down.
-Arnold H. Glasow
“
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that
much better.
-Plutarch
“
A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future, and accepts you just the way
you are. 4
-
“
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It
has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
which give value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis
“
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does
not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
My friends have made the story of my life. In a
thousand ways they have turned my limitations into
beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene
and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.
-Helen Keller
“
The best time to make friends is before you need
them.
-Ethel Barrymore
“
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a
secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
“
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love
his enemies but also to hate his friends.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Friends are people who know you really well and like
you anyway.
-Greg Tamblyn
“
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in
the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone
“
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual
sympathy between them, each supplying what the
other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always
using friendly and sincere words.
-Buddha
“
Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And
it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the
time, but I couldn’t have, could I?
-Wizard of Oz
“
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
-French Proverb
“
A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
“
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom
to be yourself.
-Jim Morrisson
“
Never contract friendship with a man that is not
better than thyself.
-Confucius
“
A true friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17
“
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
-Khalil Gibran
“
Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your
world.
-William James
“
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what
we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak
and gives us strength to let us free.
-Unknown
“
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering,
makes someone a friend.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
-Irish Proverb
“
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always
because he is not ourself, and has something in him
which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not
so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
-Lucy Larcom
“
More Winnie The Pooh Quotes →
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is
never anything but sharing.
-Elie Wiesel
“
True friendship is seen through the heart not
through the eyes.
-Unknown
“
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-Walt Whitman
“
The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
“
It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be
strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many
friends.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Friendship involves many things but, above all the
power of going outside oneself and appreciating what
is noble and loving in another.
-Thomas Huxley
“
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have
to get us through this life–and they are the only
things from this world that we could hope to see in
the next.
-Dean Koontz
“
Between men and woman there is no friendship
possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but
no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
“
To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that
it holds on to its volume, memories have to be
watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls
for regular contact with the witnesses of the past,
that is to say, with friends.
-Milan Kundera, Identity
“
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it
loses something.
-Dean Smith
“
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day so I never have to live without
you.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in
happiness.
-Euripides
“
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you
really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have
too many friends because then you’re just not
really friends.
-Truman Capote
“
No road is long with good company.
-Turkish Proverb
“
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But
if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven’t learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
“
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are
hard to find.
-William Shakespeare
“
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
-Khalil Gibran
“
The language of friendship is not words but
meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
Friendship with oneself is all important because
without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in
the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“
The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your
friends.
-Unknown
“
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting
for others to come to you. You have to go to them
sometimes.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just
got to find the ones worth suffering for.
-Bob Marley
“
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
-Latin Proverb
“
True friendship is never serene.
-Marquise de Sevigne
“
There is nothing I would not do for those who are
really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by
halves, it is not my nature.
-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“
To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life
worthwhile.
-UnknownBROKEN FUNNY CUTE
Good friends help you to find important things when
you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your
courage.
- Doe Zantamata 10
“
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true
friendship.
-Albert Einstein
“
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
-Ed Cunningham
“
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
-Seneca
“
Silence make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying, but the never needing to say that
counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
“
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can
afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
you discover that someone else believes in you and is
willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Remember: No one’s more important than people!
In other words, friendship is the most important
thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–
and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
-Julia Child
“
What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with
whom you dare to be yourself.
-Frank Crane
“
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel.
Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how
cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when
you got a good friend.
-Unknown
“
No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes
to heal, you will never get through it without your
friends.
-Unknown
“
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring
of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of
similarities.
-Unknown
“
You can make more friends in two months by
becoming really interested in other people, than you
can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
-Bernard Meltzer
“
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give
it, we will receive it.
-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.
“
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires a very fine nature to
sympathize with a friend’s success.
-Oscar Wilde
“
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes
they know us better than we know ourselves. With
gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support
us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their
presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
-Vincent van Gogh
“
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art
of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go
and allow people to hurl themselves into their own
destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces
when it’s all over.
-Gloria Naylor
“
We can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.
-Dalai Lama
“
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when
two or more of the companions discover that they
have in common some insight or interest or even
taste which the others do not share and which, till
that moment, each believed to be his own unique
treasure (or burden).
-C.S. Lewis
“
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than
alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
“
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-John Leonard
“
Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you
feel all alone, you aren’t.
-
“
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures
of his worth.
-Charles Darwin
“
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s
why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough
“
The influence of each human being on others in this
life is a kind of immortality.
-John Quincy Adams
“
People who bore one another should meet seldom;
people who interest one another, often.
-C.S. Lewis
“
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
-Walter Winchell
“
If you have one true friend, you have more than your
share.
-Thomas Fuller
“
God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay.
That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see
what shapes we can make of each other.
-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me
yours.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
“
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
“
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour
of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend
who cares.
-Henri Nouwen
“
You have been my friends. That in itself is a
tremendous thing.
-E.B. White
“
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.
-Henry Ford
“
Friends are the most important ingredient in the
recipe called life.
-
“
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and
say my glory was I had such friends.
-William Butler Yeats
“
My friends are my estate.
-Emily Dickinson
“
A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down.
-Arnold H. Glasow
“
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that
much better.
-Plutarch
“
A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future, and accepts you just the way
you are. 4
-
“
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It
has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
which give value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis
“
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does
not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
My friends have made the story of my life. In a
thousand ways they have turned my limitations into
beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene
and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.
-Helen Keller
“
The best time to make friends is before you need
them.
-Ethel Barrymore
“
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a
secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
“
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love
his enemies but also to hate his friends.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Friends are people who know you really well and like
you anyway.
-Greg Tamblyn
“
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in
the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone
“
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual
sympathy between them, each supplying what the
other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always
using friendly and sincere words.
-Buddha
“
Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And
it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the
time, but I couldn’t have, could I?
-Wizard of Oz
“
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
-French Proverb
“
A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
“
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom
to be yourself.
-Jim Morrisson
“
Never contract friendship with a man that is not
better than thyself.
-Confucius
“
A true friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17
“
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
-Khalil Gibran
“
Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your
world.
-William James
“
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what
we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak
and gives us strength to let us free.
-Unknown
“
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering,
makes someone a friend.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
-Irish Proverb
“
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always
because he is not ourself, and has something in him
which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not
so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
-Lucy Larcom
“
More Winnie The Pooh Quotes →
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is
never anything but sharing.
-Elie Wiesel
“
True friendship is seen through the heart not
through the eyes.
-Unknown
“
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-Walt Whitman
“
The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
“
It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be
strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many
friends.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Friendship involves many things but, above all the
power of going outside oneself and appreciating what
is noble and loving in another.
-Thomas Huxley
“
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have
to get us through this life–and they are the only
things from this world that we could hope to see in
the next.
-Dean Koontz
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Between men and woman there is no friendship
possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but
no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
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To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that
it holds on to its volume, memories have to be
watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls
for regular contact with the witnesses of the past,
that is to say, with friends.
-Milan Kundera, Identity
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As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it
loses something.
-Dean Smith
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day so I never have to live without
you.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in
happiness.
-Euripides
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you
really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have
too many friends because then you’re just not
really friends.
-Truman Capote
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No road is long with good company.
-Turkish Proverb
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But
if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven’t learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are
hard to find.
-William Shakespeare
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
-Khalil Gibran
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The language of friendship is not words but
meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Friendship with oneself is all important because
without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in
the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your
friends.
-Unknown
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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting
for others to come to you. You have to go to them
sometimes.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just
got to find the ones worth suffering for.
-Bob Marley
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A friend in need is a friend indeed.
-Latin Proverb
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True friendship is never serene.
-Marquise de Sevigne
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are
really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by
halves, it is not my nature.
-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life
worthwhile.
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Good friends help you to find important things when
you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your
courage.
- Doe Zantamata 10
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true
friendship.
-Albert Einstein
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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
-Ed Cunningham
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
-Seneca
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Silence make the real conversations between friends.
Not the saying, but the never needing to say that
counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can
afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
you discover that someone else believes in you and is
willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Remember: No one’s more important than people!
In other words, friendship is the most important
thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–
and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
-Julia Child
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What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with
whom you dare to be yourself.
-Frank Crane
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel.
Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how
cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when
you got a good friend.
-Unknown
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No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes
to heal, you will never get through it without your
friends.
-Unknown
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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring
of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of
similarities.
-Unknown
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You can make more friends in two months by
becoming really interested in other people, than you
can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
-Bernard Meltzer
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Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give
it, we will receive it.
-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a
friend, but it requires a very fine nature to
sympathize with a friend’s success.
-Oscar Wilde
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Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes
they know us better than we know ourselves. With
gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support
us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their
presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
-Vincent van Gogh
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art
of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go
and allow people to hurl themselves into their own
destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces
when it’s all over.
-Gloria Naylor
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.
-Dalai Lama
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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when
two or more of the companions discover that they
have in common some insight or interest or even
taste which the others do not share and which, till
that moment, each believed to be his own unique
treasure (or burden).
-C.S. Lewis
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I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than
alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-John Leonard
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Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you
feel all alone, you aren’t.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures
of his worth.
-Charles Darwin
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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s
why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough
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The influence of each human being on others in this
life is a kind of immortality.
-John Quincy Adams
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People who bore one another should meet seldom;
people who interest one another, often.
-C.S. Lewis
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A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
-Walter Winchell
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If you have one true friend, you have more than your
share.
-Thomas Fuller
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God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay.
That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see
what shapes we can make of each other.
-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me
yours.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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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
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour
of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend
who cares.
-Henri Nouwen
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You have been my friends. That in itself is a
tremendous thing.
-E.B. White
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.
-Henry Ford
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Friends are the most important ingredient in the
recipe called life.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and
say my glory was I had such friends.
-William Butler Yeats
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My friends are my estate.
-Emily Dickinson
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down.
-Arnold H. Glasow
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that
much better.
-Plutarch
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A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future, and accepts you just the way
you are. 4
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It
has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
which give value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does
not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-Henry David Thoreau
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a
thousand ways they have turned my limitations into
beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene
and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.
-Helen Keller
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The best time to make friends is before you need
them.
-Ethel Barrymore
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a
secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love
his enemies but also to hate his friends.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friends are people who know you really well and like
you anyway.
-Greg Tamblyn
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The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in
the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual
sympathy between them, each supplying what the
other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always
using friendly and sincere words.
-Buddha
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Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And
it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the
time, but I couldn’t have, could I?
-Wizard of Oz
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
-French Proverb
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A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
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A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom
to be yourself.
-Jim Morrisson
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not
better than thyself.
-Confucius
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A true friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
-Khalil Gibran
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Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your
world.
-William James
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A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what
we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak
and gives us strength to let us free.
-Unknown
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering,
makes someone a friend.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
-Irish Proverb
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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always
because he is not ourself, and has something in him
which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not
so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
-Lucy Larcom
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is
never anything but sharing.
-Elie Wiesel
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True friendship is seen through the heart not
through the eyes.
-Unknown
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-Walt Whitman
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be
strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many
friends.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Friendship involves many things but, above all the
power of going outside oneself and appreciating what
is noble and loving in another.
-Thomas Huxley
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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have
to get us through this life–and they are the only
things from this world that we could hope to see in
the next.
-Dean Koontz
“
Between men and woman there is no friendship
possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but
no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
“
To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that
it holds on to its volume, memories have to be
watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls
for regular contact with the witnesses of the past,
that is to say, with friends.
-Milan Kundera, Identity
“
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it
loses something.
-Dean Smith
“
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day so I never have to live without
you.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in
happiness.
-Euripides
“
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you
really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have
too many friends because then you’re just not
really friends.
-Truman Capote
“
No road is long with good company.
-Turkish Proverb
“
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But
if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven’t learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
“
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are
hard to find.
-William Shakespeare
“
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
-Khalil Gibran
“
The language of friendship is not words but
meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau
“
Friendship with oneself is all important because
without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in
the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“
The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your
friends.
-Unknown
“
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting
for others to come to you. You have to go to them
sometimes.
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just
got to find the ones worth suffering for.
-Bob Marley
“
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
-Latin Proverb
“
True friendship is never serene.
-Marquise de Sevigne
“
There is nothing I would not do for those who are
really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by
halves, it is not my nature.
-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“
To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life
worthwhile.
-Unknown
