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Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
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
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
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
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
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
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