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Quotes About Friendship

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
~ Voltaire
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
~ Michel de Montaigne
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
~ Samuel Butler
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
~ Epicurus
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
~ Francis Bacon
Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
~ John Lennox
A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.
~ Noah
We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
~ Yousuf Karsh
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
~ Dorothy Parker
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~ Sophocles
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~ Gloria Naylor
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
~ Orison S. Marden
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
~ William Penn
We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
~ Dada Vaswani
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
~ Ivan Turgenev
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
~ Eddie Cantor
We are friends for life. When we're together the years fall away. Isn't that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you've come?
~ Judy Blume
Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.
~ Britney Spears
I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
~ Stephen King