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Quotes About Friendship

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.
~ Roger Rosenblatt
Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.
~ Hesiod
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
~ Unknown
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
~ Adrienne Monnier
In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
~ Lauren Bacall
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
~ Henry David Thoreau
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
~ Unknown
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
~ Alphonse Karr
It's so much more friendly with two.
~ A. A. Milne
In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
~ Mariella Frostrup
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.
~ Aaron Allston
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
~ Michel de Montaigne
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
~ Julia Roberts
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
~ Robert Breault
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
~ C. S. Lewis
Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
~ Mother Teresa
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
~ Roger Zelazny
The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.
~ Unknown
I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.
~ Joan Lunden
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.
~ Unknown
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Equals make the best friends.
~ Aesop