| Ancient Quotes : |
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening
fruit."
~ Aristotle |
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
~ Aristotle |
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"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by
dividing and sharing it."
~ Cicero |
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| Contemporary Quotes: |
"The friendship that can cease has
never been real."
~ Saint Jerome |
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"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships--the ones that last--
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more
than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...suddenly
the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
~ Dana Scully (The X-Files) |
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Friendship involves man things but, above all the power of going
outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in
another.
~ Thomas Huxley |
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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
~ Lois L. Kaufman |
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~ John Evelyn |
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"Friendship multiplies the good of
life and divides the evil."
~ Baltasar Gracian |
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"Friendship needs no words..."
~ Dag Hammarskjold |
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no
wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he
will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
~ Henry David Thoreau |
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"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as
the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter."
~ James Fennimore Cooper |
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"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful
things in life."
~ James Francis Byrnes |
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the
things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
~ Pietro Aretino |
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"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
~ Robert Alan |
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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the
spirit."
~ Kahil Gibran |
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to
promote the good and happiness of one another."
~ Eustace Budgell |
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
~ Lord Byron |
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of
pleasures."
~ Kahil Gibran |
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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton |
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"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in
filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it
run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes
the heart run over."
~ Samuel Johnson |
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
~ La Rochefoucauld |
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
~ Charles Peguy |
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"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
~ William Penn |
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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give
him that determines the quality of friendship.
~ Mary Dixon Thayer |
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can
display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can
excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and
amending the error.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~ Henry David Thoreau |
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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have
authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving
his own.
~ Thomas Wilson |
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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton |
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"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an
orange or a lemon"
~ Emma Stacey |
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot
be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| Anonymous Quotes: |
| "Be careful of what you say,
friendship can end in one minute
because of a stupid word." |
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| "Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes." |
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| Building a friendship is like planting a quote. |
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"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some kind of mark on it forever." |
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| "A friendship that stops existing,
was actually never there." |
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"You will never have a perfect friendship,
but you must strive for one." |
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| "Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows." |
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