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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
* Thomas Fuller
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
* Elbert Hubbard
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life.
* Lee Iacocca
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
* W. Somerset Maugham
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
* W. Somerset Maugham
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
* Michel de Montaigne
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
* George Jean Nathan
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it–to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
* Nigerian Proverb
To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
* William Shakespeare
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
* William Shakespeare
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
* Mark Twain
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
* Voltaire
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
* Oscar Wilde
“To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden.”
-Goethe
“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”
-Confucious
“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.”
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“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
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“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.”
-Spanish Proverb
“Friends are born, not made.”
-Henry Adams
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.”
-Lee Iacocca
“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”
-Nigerian Proverb
“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.”
-Rusty Berkus
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
-Abraham Lincoln
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
-Dale Carnegie
“Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me.”
-Gravestone from the 1800s
