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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ...
by Samuel Butler
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
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Quotes by Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship Quotes and Sayings
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
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