If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
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?
- Thomas Jefferson
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
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
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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 feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
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
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
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 benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
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
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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
"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
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
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
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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