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Quotes About Friendship

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
~ Robert Southey
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.
~ Walter Cronkite
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
~ Aristotle
There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.
~ Phil Callaway
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
~ Golda Meir
A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
~ Mario Puzo
I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.
~ Eric Thomas
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.
~ Susan Jeffers
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.
~ Frederic Farrar
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.
~ Pope Francis
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.
~ Unknown
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
~ Samuel Beckett, Murphy
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
~ Maya Angelou
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
~ David Nicholls, One Day
Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
~ Julia Child, My Life in France
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
~ Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.
~ Lee Grant
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
~ Sallust
True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
~ Isabel Allende
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
~ William Feather