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Quotes About Friendship

Butterflies, bees our wingèd, happy friends Oh, to dance in the air and float on the breeze...
~ Terri Guillemets
There seems to be a popular impression that cats are thoroughly selfish and incapable of any natural feeling or affection. I do not believe that. My experience has shown me that cats are very affectionate, especially to persons whom they like. They are not quick, like dogs, to strike up friendships; but when a friendship is once formed with a human, they manifest their feelings in ways that are unmistakable. And they are remarkably intelligent.
~ Charles E. Bullard, 1915
We may as well make friends with Change — the instant the Moon is full it's already starting to wane
~ Terri Guillemets
Perchance, like myself, you may cloud-gazing be; Perchance, my sweet friend, you are thinking of me...
~ Margaret Miller Davidson, 1838
A chef's two best friends are salt and praise.
~ Terri Guillemets
Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.
~ Irish saying
A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
~ Author Unknown
My dear friend: Three or four months on the edge of the desert, all alone — how I envy you; and again, how I thank Heaven I am not in a similar position.
~ Jack London, 1899
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
~ Author Unknown
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~ Samuel Butler
A friend may smile and bid you hail, Yet wish you with the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.
~ The Sentinel, 1920
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
~ Author unknown, 1940s
Friends are sprinkles on the donut of life.
~ Internet meme
Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Poor Folks have neither any Kindred nor any Friends.
~ Italian proverb
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
~ French proverb
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson
The function of a friend is not to have a function.
~ Detlef Cordes
Friends are lost by calling often, and by calling seldom.
~ Gaelic Proverb
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
~ American Proverb
FRIENDSHIP. A mutual belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, hobgoblins and imbecilities.
~ H. L. Mencken
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles"
Clarissa: Talbot, it is so delightful to have you back again. I shall now have such charming evenings with you at chess. Talbot: At what? Clarissa: Chess — the king of games. Talbot: Do you call it a game? Ha! ha! No, thankee; life's too short for chess.
~ H. J. Byron, Our Boys, 1875
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth