Friendship Sayings

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“It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.”
– Mary Dixon Thayer

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
– George Washington

“Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.”
– Thomas Wilson

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“A new friendship is like an unripened fruit – it may become either an orange or a lemon.”
– Emma Stacey

“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”
– Douglas Pagels

“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
– Robert Brault

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
– Sicilian Proverb

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
– Aristotle

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
– Edgar Watson Howe

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ”
– Arnold Glasow

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.”
– William Shakespeare

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ”
– Elisabeth Foley

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
– William Blake

“A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.”
– Pam Brown

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
– Samuel Johnson

“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
– Dave Tyson Gentry

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
– Laurence J. Peter

“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”
– Grace Pulpit

“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

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.”
– Dorothy Parker

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