Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh) 
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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