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Friends and friendship

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

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

11.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

13.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

14.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

15.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

17.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

18.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

22.

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

23.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

24.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

26.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

27.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

28.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

30.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

31.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

32.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

34.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

36.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

37.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

41.

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

Bach, Richard

42.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

43.

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.

44.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

45.

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

46.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

48.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

49.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

50.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald