Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot

Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. - Charles Caleb Colton

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. - Sir Francis Bacon

‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. - Charles Lamb

“True friendship is a gift that is given without the expectation of anything in return. Instead the reward is the friendship itself.”

“The best thing to do behind a person’s back is to pat it.”

“Friendship is the strangest kind of love, the less selfish way to love”

“A friend is like a seatbelt, you may not always need them, but they will be there just in case!”

“A true friend thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves.”

“You are someone on whom i depend, more than a lover, more than a friend.”

“Never explain–True friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe you anyway.”

“Friendship is a candle whose flame glows brighter when the hour is darker

“Two friends can’t be friends long if they can’t forgive each other’s little failings.”

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.
A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A true friend is the best possession.
A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

Hold a good friend in both your hands.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  ~Katherine Mansfield


A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.  ~Frances Ward Weller

There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.  ~Diana Cortes

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.  ~Author Unknown

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.  ~Author Unknown

“My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.”
– Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Your friend is your needs answered.”
– Kahil Gibran

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
– Kahil Gibran.

“Let your best be for your friend…”
– Kahil Gibran

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.”
– Kahil Gibran

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
– Homer (9th century B.C.)

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
– Samuel Johnson

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

“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
– Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

“Friends show their love in times of trouble…”
– Euripides (408 B.C.)

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
– Euripides (408 B.C.)

“A good friend is my nearest relation.”
– Thomas Fuller (1732)

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” - Bernard Meltzer

“Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.” - Esther M. Clark

“Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice.” - Anonymous

“I got a lot of best friends. Some o’ them I don’t even hardly know!” - Archie Bunker

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” - John Leonard

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” – Silican proverb.

“Friends are God’s ways of apologizing for our families.” - Anonymous

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” - Charles Lamb

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you always know they are there.

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.

Some people make the world special just by being in it.

Seasons may come and go but a friend is forever.

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away they were meant to be there…to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become.

“Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever,

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

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps

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