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Quotes About Friendship

He who hath many friends hath none.
~ Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~ Aristotle
I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
~ Kurt Cobain
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
~ Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
~ George Washington
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
~ Eminem
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
~ Dalai Lama
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
~ Maya Angelou
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting
~ Orson Welles
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.
~ Unknown
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~ Unknown
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
~ Charles Kingsley
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
~ Charles Kingsley
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
~ Mencius
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~ Donna Roberts
We cannot tell the exact moment a 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 that makes the heart run over.
~ Gloria Naylor
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~ Gloria Naylor
It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
~ Henri Nouwen