Quotes about friends and friendship

"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."

Joubert, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."

Kaufman, Lois L. on friends and friendship
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"Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last."

Kempis, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences."

Kennedy, Eugene on friends and friendship
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"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

La Bruyere, Jean De on friends and friendship   

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship   

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship   

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship   

"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship   

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship   

"Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life."

Lamb, Charles on friends and friendship   

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

Lamb, Charles on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes."

Larson, Doug on friends and friendship
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"Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on friends and friendship   

"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."

Lawes, Lewis E. on friends and friendship   

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

Lee, Robert E. on friends and friendship
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"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

Leonard, John on friends and friendship
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"He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front."

Levinson, Leonard Louis on friends and friendship   

"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."

Lew, Cindy on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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"Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest."

Lewis, Joe E. on friends and friendship   

"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship   

"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship   

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on friends and friendship
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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!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on friends and friendship   

"Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night."

Lund, Thelma J. on friends and friendship   

"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."

Luther, Martin on friends and friendship   

"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

Lynd, Robert on friends and friendship   

"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist."

Machado, Aaron on friends and friendship
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"I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses"

Mansfield, Katherine on friends and friendship   

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

Mansfield, Katherine on friends and friendship   

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you."

Marbury on friends and friendship   

"No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money..."

Marden, Orison Swett on friends and friendship   

"We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits."

Maugham, W. Somerset on friends and friendship   

"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend."

Mccormack, Mark on friends and friendship
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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."

McLaughlin, Mignon on friends and friendship
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