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Jeanette Winterson

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.

George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Joseph Roux

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plautus

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Laurence J. Peter

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Samuel Pepys

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Douglas Pagels

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Henri Nouwen

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Toni Morrison

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Alice Duer Miller

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

Alice Duer Miller

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Alice Duer Miller

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Alice Duer Miller

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Alice Duer Miller

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Katherine Mansfield

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Emil Ludwig

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

John Leonard

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Emily Kimbrough

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Eugene Kennedy

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Elbert Hubbard

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Edward W. Howe

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

William Hazlitt

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Francesco Guicciardini

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Arnold H. Glasow

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Thomas A. Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Marlene Dietrich

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Pam Brown

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Pam Brown

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Robert Brault

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Muhammad Ali

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Victor Hugo

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)

Anon.

There???s a miracle of friendship that dwells within the heart And you don???t know how it happens or where it gets its start But the happiness it brings you always gives a special lift Any you realize that friendship Is God???s most perfect gift.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

William Hazlitt

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Muhammad Ali

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Muhammad Ali

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Albert Camus

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.

Sir Thomas More

Friendship demands attention.

Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

C. Neil Strait

Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.

Unknown

Love is friendship caught on fire.

Francis Bacon

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

E. R. Hazlip

Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.

Jeremy Taylor

Love is friendship set on fire.

Unknown

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

David Grayson

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

May Sarton

Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.

Lawana Blackwell

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Alfred A. Montapert

All lasting business is built on friendship.

William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Danish proverb

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Unknown

True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Anon.

Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives.

La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Hubert Humphrey

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Honore' de Balzac

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

La Rochefoucauld

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Deng Ming-Dao

Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

Clive Staples Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Clive Staples Lewis

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Dave Tyson Gentry

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It???s not something you learn in school. But if you haven???t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven???t really learned anything.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Friendship is love with understanding.

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

True friendship is never serene.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.