Friendship Quote

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
Anonymous

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This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love
Anonymous

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Russian Proverb

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Eugene Benge

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Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.
Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb

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With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Proverb

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Without friends no one would choose to live.
Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
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To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
Scottish Proverb

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I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
Janina Atkins
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The road to a friend's house is never long
Danish Proverb

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself,respect.
Oren Arnold

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Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joseph Joubert
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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Donald J. Adams
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A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat

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A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Arabian Proverb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.
Source Unknown

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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Geoffrey F. Albert

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To your friends, you're like a trash bag; they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.
Adam R. Gwizdala

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Russian Proverb

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------If if you haven't learned what friendship means then you haven't learned anything
Muhamid alli

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The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

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A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
Wilma Askinas

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Russian Proverb

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arabian Proverb

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For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.
Arthur S. Hardy

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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.
Robert Anson Heinlein

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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
Thomas Fuller, M. D

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.
Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author
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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.
Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer site
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