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
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
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
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 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
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
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
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
"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
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
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
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
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