Friendship Quotes
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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
Zadie Smith
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe
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Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson
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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
Marcel Proust
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Aristotle
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
Billy Joel
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine Albright
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Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
Hafez
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
Samantha Harvey
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In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
Dirk Kempthorne
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
Abraham Lincoln
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
Hillary Clinton
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The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.
Jason Reynolds
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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Aristotle
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. Lewis
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
George Washington