Friendship Quotes

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Friends, Ourselves, Truly

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Purpose, Spirit, Save

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya

Truth, Bitter, Behind

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

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

Someone, Friend, Joy

Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo

Money, Water, Oil

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

Success, True, Friend

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

True, Friend, Share

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

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

Made, Friends, Between

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

Friends, Betray, Lovers

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

Friend, Person, Silence

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

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

Life, Friend, Cannot

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

Time, Long, Friend

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

Help, Confidence, Friends

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

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Heart, Friend, Giving

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

Life, Good, Evil

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rose, Breathing, Sweets

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