"We need each other,
deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic
imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question
in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship."
-- Patch Adams
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rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert Alan Silverstein Friends
are one of the greatest treasures we have in life. We choose our friends and share
ourselves with them in good times, bad times and through every day life.
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The greatest sweetener
of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,
is a secret which but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison
"A faithful
friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha
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"Wishing
to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a
slow-ripening fruit."
-- Aristotle
"Friendship
is essentially a partnership."
-- Aristotle
"What
is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-- Aristotle
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In
poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are
a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to
the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness,
and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
-- Aristotle
"I
keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted
us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino
(1537)
"There
is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc
"Two
are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they
fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he
falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes
4:9-10.
"A
friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.
"A companion
loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the
man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)
"Friendship
is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness
of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)
"Friendship
is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)
"Friendship
makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing
it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)
Friendship
improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing
of our grief
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"True
friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
No
one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone
means by friendship.
-- Francis Marion Crawford
A
friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings
"If
you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
-- Moshe Dayan
My
friends are my estate.
-- Emily Dickinson
