Friendship Quotes
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"It is amazing how you can surround yourself with so many people you can call friends, and yet actually only have one or two real ones."
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."
"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"
"From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting."
"I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me."
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."
"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity."
"All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity."
"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."
"Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."
"Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship."
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."