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Friends and friendship

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Hazlitt, William

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

Capote, Truman

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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