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Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Chinese

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wein, Len

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

... 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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

10.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

11.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

12.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

18.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

19.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

20.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

24.

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

25.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

26.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

27.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

28.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

29.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

30.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

32.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

33.

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

Saying, Hasidic

34.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

35.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

36.

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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

40.

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

41.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

44.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

47.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian