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Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
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
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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
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
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
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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 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 echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- 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
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
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
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
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 is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
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
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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