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FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

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* "We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship."
-- Patch Adams

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

Friends are one of the greatest treasures we have in life. We choose our friends and share ourselves with them in good times, bad times and through every day life.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein


The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha

 

* "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
-- Aristotle

* "Friendship is essentially a partnership."
-- Aristotle

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-- Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
-- Aristotle

"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 (1537)

* It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

"A friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
-- Francis Marion Crawford

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
-- Moshe Dayan

My friends are my estate.
-- Emily Dickinson

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