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~ Friends are thieves of time. ~ Proverb
~ A friend to all is a friend to none. ~ Aristotle ~ A lost friendship is an enemy won. ~ Proverb ~ Friends are flowers that never fade. ~ Proverb ~ Friendship is love with understanding. ~ Proverb ~ True friends stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The best mirror is an old friend. ~ George Herbert ~ No friendship can survive the gift of gold.~ Proverb ~ Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. ~ Proverb ~ A good friend is better than a near relation. ~ Proverb ~ The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~ Aristotle ~ Who seeks a faultless friend rests friendless. ~ Proverb ~ Life is nothing without friendship. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ Beware of the friend who was once your foe. ~ Proverb ~ Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ It takes a long time to grow an old friend.~ John Leonard ~ A friend in power is a friend lost. ~ Henry Brooks Adams ~ Hold a true friend with both your hands.~ Nigerian Proverb ~ Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~ Aristotle ~ An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ A friendship that can end never really began. ~ Publilius Syrus ~ Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ~ Publilius Syrus ~ Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ~ Samuel Butler ~ It's poor friendship that needs to be constantly bought. ~ Proverb ~ There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. ~ Marlene Dietrick ~ Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~ Swedish Proverb ~ If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. ~ Proverb ~ The only way to have a friend is to be one.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~ Henry Ford ~ It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake ~ If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own. ~ Latin Proverb ~ He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ Friends show their love, in times of trouble, not in happiness. ~ Euripides ~ A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Friendships are discovered rather than made. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe ~ A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia ~ He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. ~ Hasidic Proverb ~ Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. ~ Jacques Delille ~ Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~ Sicilian Proverb ~ Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~ Dorothy Parker ~ Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ~ David Gayson ~ A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~ E.W. Howe ~ A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~ Frances Ward Weller ~ A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ~ Aristotle ~ Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never. ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~ Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~ Samuel Pepys ~ Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ~ Margaret Walker ~ Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. ~ Robert Brault ~ A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. ~ Wilma Askinas ~ Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller ~ The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. ~ Mao Tse-Tung ~ Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~ A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ~ Walter Winchell ~ A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. ~ Len Wein ~ Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~ American Proverb ~ Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ~ Robert Lynd ~ A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~ Arnold Glasow ~ Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. ~ Anonymous ~ Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson ~ I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. ~ Walt Whitman ~ In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ~ John Churton Collins ~ The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~ Anonymous ~ True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~ Dave Tyson Gentry ~ Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ~ John D. MacDonald ~ Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~ Anonymous ~ One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~ George Santayana ~ The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ~ David Storey ~ In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty. ~ English Proverb ~ Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. ~ Ambrose Bierce ~ To become truly acquainted with another person, you must first get to know yourself. ~ Anonymous ~ All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~ Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~ Robert Brault ~ True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ~ David Tyson Gentry ~ The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant ~ Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. ~ Celia Brayfield ~ A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.~ Douglas Pagels ~ True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~ Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.~ Jean de La Fontaine ~ It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. ~ John D. Rockefeller ~ Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~ Robert Brault ~ Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. ~ Henry Brooks Adams ~ Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~ Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it. ~ Sylvia Bremer ~ The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~ Elisabeth Foley ~ No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~ Francois Mauriac ~ I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~ Plutarch ~ I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~ Thomas A. Edison ~ I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~ Blaise Pascal ~ I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~ Katherine Mansfield ~ Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~ A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. ~ Arthur Brisbane ~ Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~ Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus ~ I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~ Robert Brault ~ He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. ~ Anonymous ~ 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 ~ No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.~ Robert Southey ~ Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~ It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ~ Buddha ~ One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. ~ Clifton Fadiman ~ A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. ~ William Shakespeare ~ The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~ Anonymous ~ Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone, but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ~ William Hazlitt ~ I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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~ 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. ~ Gloria Naylor