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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

21.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Santayana, George

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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