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Quotes About Friendship

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
~ Bible
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
~ Robert Collyer
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.
~ Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.
~ Anonymous
Friends will abandon you in times of disgrace, but enemies will follow you to your death.
~ Unknown
Friends Are Treasures
~ Unknown
And say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.
~ Unknown
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
~ Francis Bacon
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
~ Pam Brown
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.
~ Barbara Burrow
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
~ The Talmud
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
~ Chilo
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth
~ Herman Melville
You're only a dog, old fellow; a dog, and you've had your day; But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you always
~ Unknown
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
~ Unknown
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
~ Lucan
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
~ Eleanor Robson Belmont