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I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.-- E.E. Cummings

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.-- Samuel Johnston

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. --Thomas Jefferson

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.-- Edward Everett Hale

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. --Mary Catherwood

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship. --Susan P. Schultz

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A true friend is someone that knows the song of your soul, and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words.—Anonymous

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. --George Eliot

My friend is one... who take me for what I am. --Henry David Thoreau

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. - Charles Caleb Colton

If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four friends in the world. - Blaise Pascal

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. --Unknown

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. --Albert Schweitzer

Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good. – Cicero

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. --Proverbs 27:6

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.--Anatole Broyard

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person! Having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together. Certain that a faithful hand will take them and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.-- George Eliot

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. –Unknown

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. --George Eliot

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Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.-- Miguel de Cervantes

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. --Oprah Winfrey

Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The best time to make friends is before you need them. - Ethel Barrymore


The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? --Henry David Thoreau

Friends, like flowers, give pleasure just by being. --Unknown

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.--James Fenimore Cooper

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. --Dave Tyson Gentry

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. --Proverbs 17:17

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Abraham Lincoln

"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves." Albert Camus

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."Alice Walker

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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Anais Nin

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