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Quotes About Friendship

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.
~ Samuel Johnson
Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
~ Helen Keller
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?
~ Alice Walker
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.
~ Samuel Johnson
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men only become friends by community of pleasures.
~ Samuel Johnson
Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
~ Aristotle
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
~ John Wooden
Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.
~ Samuel Johnson
Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
~ Samuel Johnson
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
~ George Washington
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
~ Francis Bacon
If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
~ Blaise Pascal
Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
~ Mark Twain
O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Your wealth is where your friends are.
~ Plautus
People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?
~ John Green, Paper Towns
A new friend is like new wine when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
~ Apocrypha