Lasting Friendship Quotes - Page 3

• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, True Friend

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Real Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.147, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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

  William Blake

  Best Friend, Friendship, Happiness

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• All lasting business is built on friendship.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Inspirational, Business, Insightful

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• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship is Love without his wings!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Real Friends

  'L'Amitiè est l'amour sans ailes'

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• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

  James F. Cooper

  Motivational, Friendship, Spring

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Friendship, Believe, Real Friends

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• 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, True Friend, Inspiration

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.374

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• The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

  Wilson Mizner

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

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• No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

  Cordell Hull

  Peace, War, Achievement

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• Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sides, Advantage, Lasting

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.59

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

  Sallust

  Friendship, True Friend, Like And Dislike

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• In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Laughter, True Friend

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

  Alan King

  Sex, Fun, Food

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

  John Mayall

  Friendship, People, Musical

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• I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

  Kurt Busch

  Years, Appreciate, Shells

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• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Friendship, Football

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

  Pietro Aretino

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.

  Hamid Karzai

  Years, People, Support

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