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Quotes About Friendship

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road
~ Marek Edelman
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
~ Margaret Cavendish
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
~ Margaret Cho
I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, "I'm beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I'm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I'm beautiful because I say I am. I've earned it, and I'm gonna be it.
~ Margaret Cho
for an incestuous friendship will outlive, as I have discovered, any passionate love.
~ Margaret Drabble
My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories, which cannot be believed and which are true. They are horror stories and they have not happened to me, they have not yet happened to me, they have happened to me but we are detached, we watch our unbelief with horror.
~ Unknown
Create your own permission slip for joy. Write three words: Accept. Adapt. Depend. Carry this permission slip with you. Tell your friends you're working on becoming more content, more joyful. Take a nap. Live with a messy house for a time. Order takeout. File an extension on your taxes. Stare out the window. Linger in the company of a friend. Breathe in the fullness of life. Use those words to fight back with joy.
~ Margaret Feinberg
Friends, like pianos, need frequent tuning. You are in the right key when you sing the praises of others. —HEATHER MACGREGOR
~ Unknown
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
All right," said Eden. "After all, we've got to hide somewhere. And even if they move on a bit faster than we can, they'll still leave signs, won't they? "Yes, they'll drip blood and leave echoes of people laughing," said Timon in a dark voice. Eden looked at him apprehensively. But then Timon laughed himself. "Joking! Joking! Only joking!" he cried, and Eden nodded, echoing his laughter rather uncertainly.
~ Margaret Mahy
Le voglio bene. È una di quelle persone un po' distratte che si fanno voler bene per forza.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
Then I'll help Fionn with her refuge for lost frogs, or whatever she thinks she's doing. She seems to be adopting them.
~ Unknown
Every now and then you get hit with hard times or good— who's to say? But then there are these tiny times in between when you look up at the tops of trees swaying or you sit don to a fine meal with a new family or you wake up alone and by the end of the day, you got yourself your first friend.
~ Unknown
An oddly paired duo, Pete, a computer "junkie" and
~ Unknown