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Friendship Quotes and Sayings (2)
Quotes about Friendship

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Related topics: Relationship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

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

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

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.
- Winnie the Pooh

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

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

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 only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous

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