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Friendship Quotes and Sayings (4)
Quotes about Friendship

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

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

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

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

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

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

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

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

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

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

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

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot

My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo

We listen. We listen. We move.
We sit. It rains. The sun comes out.
(there stands a friend)
We listen. We laugh. We share.
We sit. We dance. It rains.
There stands a friend.
We listen. We share. We sit. We dance.
The sun comes up.
There. I stand, a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie