Wise Friendship Quotes

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

  Muhammad Ali

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  Mencius

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, Happy

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

  Aristotle

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• 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.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

  Rod McKuen

  Friendship, Real Friends, Strangers And Friends

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• Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

  Aesop

  Kissing, Faithful, Enemy

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Success, Inspirational Love

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

  Solomon

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fall

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Friendship, Inspirational Life, Real Friends

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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