Friendship Quotes

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Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

Time, Friends, Painful

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Live, Heart, True

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson

Success, True, Friend

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Saying, Real, Friends

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell

Friend, Others, Walk

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius

Contract, Thyself

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone

Friends, Sincere, Ship

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia Butler

Time, Art, Friend

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone, Friend, Joy

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True, Care, Greatest

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller

True, Friend, Share

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

Friend, Person, Silence

Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo

Money, Water, Oil

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

Friends, Between, Quarrel

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

Good, Mind, Woman

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Friend, Cannot

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
Judy Holliday

Friends, Betray, Lovers

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Time, Long, Friend

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

Great, Nothing, High

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

Mind, Two, Bodies

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus

Help, Confidence, Friends

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Life, Good, Evil

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Love, Finest, Balm

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