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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
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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No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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.
- Orson Welles
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
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