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Friends and friendship

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

- Bach, Richard

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Brown, Pam

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

44.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

46.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas