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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
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
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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
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
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
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
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 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
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
"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
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
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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)
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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