Friendship

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• "A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start" ~ Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Oeuvres poétiques

• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." --Anaïs Nin, Diary entry, March 1937

• "Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends." ~ Jacques Delille, Malheur at Pitié, canto I (1803)

• "Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go astray." ~ Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 784

• "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
  And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." ~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, A Hundred Sayings

• "Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his." ~ Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, 29 November 1953

• "Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
  And say my glory was I had such friends." ~ William Butler Yeats, The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited

• "Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace." ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

• "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." ~ Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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• "A friend is one
  To whom one may pour out all
  The contents of one's heart
  Chaff and grain, together,
  Knowing that the gentlest of hands
  Will take and sift it,
  Keep what's worth keeping
  And blow the rest away." --Dinah Mulock

• "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." --Len Wein

• "Friendship isn't a big thing; It is a million little things." T.G.S.R.

• "Friends are these people who ask you how you are and wait for an answer." T.G.S.R.

• "A friend is the person who knows all about you and still loves you." Elbert Hubbert

• "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." --Donna Roberts

• "A hug is worth innumerable words. A friend is worth more." --Anonymous

• "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" --Abraham Lincoln
• "To attract good fortune spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon."--Chinese Proverb
• "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is."--Jim Morrison
• "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough".--Walt Whitman

• "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." --Oscar Wilde

• "Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to their misfortunes." --Chilo

• "Hold a true friend with both of your hands." --Friedrich Nietzsche

• "I realized that the Impossible stands for three things: the ghoul, the phoenix, and the loyal friend." --Safi el-Din el-Hilli

• "In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend." --Solon

• "Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing — it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up." --Bernard Cooke

• "'It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his." --Benjamin Franklin

• "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." --Marlene Dietrich

• "Life without a friend is death without a witness." --Eugene Benge

• "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." --Henry Ford

• "If I Could... My friend if I could give you one thing, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you... then you would realize what a truly special person you are." --Barbara A. Billings

• "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." --François Mauriac

• "One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." --Henry Adams

• "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for." --Homer

• "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right..." --Mark Twain

• "The road to a friend's house is never long." --Danish proverb

• "There are three friends in this world -- courage, sense, and insight." --Anonymous

• "To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends." --Anonymous

• "A true friend stabs you in the front." --Oscar Wilde

• "True wealth can not be found in your bank account. It can only be found in those you call friend. Those with whom you share your deepest feelings. And those who accept you for who you really are." --Mary Vandergrift

• "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." --The Bible, Ecclesiastes

• "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." --T.G.S.R
• "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

• "Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies." -- Dave Attell From shanks for the memories

• "Learn to appreciate the company of friends. Every moment they choose to spend with you, they give up a thousand of other things, just to be with you." -- Anonymous

• "A friend in need is a friend indeed." --Placebo

• "A true friend is somebody who you call at 3 AM and say 'I'm in a prison in Mexico' and he replies 'No worries, I'll be there in seconds'" -- Anonymous

• "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -- Charles Caleb Cotton

• Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
  Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
  Walk beside me and be my friend. -- Albert Camus

• If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. -- Stone Temple Pilots

• I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. -- Dave Matthews Band

• I get by with a little help from my friends. -- The Beatles

• My father always used to say that, when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. -- Lee Iacocca

• Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. -- The Bible, Proverbs 18:24

• A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. -- The Bible, Proverbs 17:17

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. -- Winnie the Pooh

• If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom to catch them. --T.G.S.R.

• Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. --Anonymous

• A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have. --Anonymous

• Best friends are the siblings God chose not to give us. --Anonymous

• Good friends are like stars—you don't always see them, but you know they are always there. --Anonymous

• Most people walk in and out of your life, but only friends leave footprints in your heart. --Anonymous

• When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there. --Anonymous

• Two people are never such good friends as when they are share a mutual dislike of a third person. --Anonymous

• Friends come and go, enemies accumulate. --Anonymous

• Friends hold both the power to excel your life, or destroy it ~ Adam Murphy

• Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. (Mafia Saying)

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