Friendship Quotes - Page 5

• Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Best Friend, Hope

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  Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Doe, May

  "Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington". Book by Marguerite Countess of Blessington, 1834.

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• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Meaningful, True Friend

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Best Friend, Real Friends, Faults

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• Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Rose, True Beauty, Petals

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• The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sympathy, Mean, Trying

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• Life is nothing without friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

  David Storey

  True Friend, Real Friends, Essence

  "Home".

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• Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

  Mason Cooley

  Funny Love, Sex, Funny Relationship

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Positive, True Friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Bff

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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• Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pleasure, Higher

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.279

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, True Friend, Kindness

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Patience, True Friend

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• Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Thanksgiving, Sowing

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

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• Keep your friendships in repair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Relationship, Inspirational Love

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Fountain, Positive Friendship

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• May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

  Edward Ramsay

  Wings, Rust, May

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• 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.

  E. W. Howe

  Relationship, Patience, True Friend

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  When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Life, Best Friend, True Friend

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• The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reliability, Tests, Fortune

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• Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Fate, Choices, Friends Forever

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.80, Conari Press

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  Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Best Friend, Birthday, Memories

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