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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn’t recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself?
Longer Version:
Here’s something to consider: If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn’t recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself? You might say: out of loyalty. Well, loyalty is not identical to stupidity. Loyalty must be negotiated, fairly and honestly. Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. It’s a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you. It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Good friends are like angels. You don't have to see them to know they are there for you.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
A road to a friend's house is never long.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Friendship is the candle that lights up your heart whenever it is dark outside.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds.
Longer Version:
It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
You don't lose friends because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends and you're better for it.
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Friendship is the purest love.
Longer Version:
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away -- and leaves behind only silence.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
